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Laura did not want to be a farm wife, but she consented to try farming for three years. At the end of that time, Laura and Almanzo mutually agreed to continue for one more year, a "year of grace". The book ends at the close of that fourth year on a rather optimistic note.
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They decide to make the move after the family fell ill with scarlet fever. They weren’t unscathed though as Mary was left blind from the illness. Laura becomes Mary’s eyes and helps her with many things in her daily life. The family makes the move to Dakota by train, the children’s first time traveling in this way which excites them greatly.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1943. Sleigh rides give way to buggy rides in the spring, and Laura impresses Almanzo with her willingness to help break his new and often temperamental horses, Barnum and Skip. Laura's old nemesis, Nellie Oleson, makes a brief appearance during two Sunday buggy rides with Almanzo.
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Pa might hunt alone all day in the bitter cold, in the Big Woods covered with snow, and come home at night with nothing for Ma and Mary and Laura to eat. The bears would be hidden away in their dens where they slept soundly all winter long. The squirrels would be curled in their nests in hollow trees, with their furry tails wrapped snugly around their noses. Even if Pa could get a deer, it would be poor and thin, not fat and plump as deer are in the fall. In the yard in front of the house were two beautiful big oak trees. Every morning as soon as she was awake Laura ran to look out of the window, and one morning she saw in each of the big trees a dead deer hanging from a branch.
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Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas, and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie. The books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s real childhood as an American pioneer and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family.
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The story takes place before Laura was born when Almanzo is about to turn nine years old. There are endless chores on the Wilder farm and the book covers two harvest cycles. We also meet Almanzo’s brother Royal, and Eliza Jane, and Alice, his sisters. Almanzo stays busy with chores as he awakens before 5 am every day to milk cows and feedstock. In later seasons he hauls logs, fills the ice house, trains young oxen, and, if he has time, goes to school. Laura must board with the Brewsters in their two-room claim shanty, sleeping on their sofa.
Laura also begins to play a more mature role in the family due to Mary's blindness—Pa instructs Laura to "be Mary's eyes" and to assist her in daily life as she learns to cope with her disability. Ma's prejudice against American Indians, and Laura's juvenile feelings, are shown side by side with the portrayal of the Osage tribe that lives on and owns the Ingalls family's land. A memorable scene of the Osage departing for the west culminates with Laura's captivation with a serious Osage baby, who stares intently at Laura from a basket hanging off the horse ridden by his mother. Laura clamors to keep that baby ("His eyes are so black"), which shocks both Ma and Pa. Unlike during their time in the Big Woods, the family meets difficulty and danger on the prairie. The Ingallses become terribly ill with "fever 'n' ague" (fever with severe chills and shaking) which was later identified as malaria.
Laura, along with Pa and Ma, Mary, and baby Carrie, moves to Kansas. Along the way, Pa trades his two horses for two Western mustangs, which Laura and Mary name Pet and Patty. The story of the first book in the series, Little House in the Big Woods, revolves around the life of the Ingalls family in their small home near Pepin, Wisconsin. The Long Winter begins in Dakota Territory at the Ingalls homestead on a hot August day in 1880.
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Farmer Boy, published in 1933, is the second of the Little House series. It is the sole book that does not focus on the childhood of Laura Ingalls. It is focused on the childhood of Laura's future husband, Almanzo Wilder, growing up on a farm in upstate New York in the 1860s. The days were shorter, and frost crawled up the window panes at night. Then the log house would be almost buried in snowdrifts, and the lake and the streams would freeze. In the bitter cold weather Pa could not be sure of finding any wild game to shoot for meat.
Later that winter, the family goes to Grandma Ingalls's and has a “sugaring off”. The Ingalls family returns home with buckets of syrup, enough to last the year. Laura remembered that sugaring off, and the dance that followed, for the rest of her life. Some nonfiction books by Ingalls Wilder, and some by other writers, are sometimes called Little House books or Little House on the Prairie books.
Laura comments on the varied ways they believe to have acquired it, with a neighbor woman asserting that it came from eating bad watermelon. Dr. Tan, an African American doctor, takes care of the family while they are sick. Around this time, Mr. Edwards brings Laura and Mary their Christmas presents from Independence, and in the spring, the Ingallses plant the beginnings of a small farm. Pa builds a roof and a floor for the house and digs a well with assistance from another neighbor, Mr. Scott, and the family is finally settled. Almanzo had a third sister, Laura (1844–1899), who at the time and events in the novel was already about twenty-two and had presumably moved out.
Dozens of non-fiction books about the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and several about other family members have been published, including more than one dozen by William Anderson, a schoolteacher in Michigan. The large mobilization of pioneers to the Dakotas in early March prompts Pa to leave immediately on the few days' trip to the claims office. The girls are left alone, and they spend their days and nights boarding and feeding all the pioneers passing through. They charge 25 cents for dinner and boarding, starting a savings account toward sending Mary to the School for the Blind in Vinton, Iowa, which Mary begins to attend later in the series. Little House on the Prairie, published in 1935, is the third of the series of books known as the Little House series, but only the second book to focus on the life of the Ingalls family.
B. White, Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban, and the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The nine books in the original series tell the true story of Laura's family on the American frontier in the 19th century. After her death, an original draft of The First Four Years was published in 1971. The book follows a promise that Laura made to Almanzo about being a farm wife. She never wanted to be one, but she promised him that she would try it for three years.
A well-built and strong little house is way out in the country, perched on a hill surrounded by beautiful countryside. She happily watches the days, nights, seasons, and years go by her—daisies bloom, apple trees blossom, snow falls, and the moon grows from a thin new moon to a full moon and back again. As the years pass, she notices the city lights coming closer, and the quiet country soon becomes a bustling city.
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