Little Town on the Prairie is an autobiographical children’s novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1941, the seventh of nine books in her Little House series. It is set in De Smet, South Dakota. It opens in the spring after the Long Winter, and ends as Wilder becomes a schoolteacher so she can help her sister, Mary, stay at a school for the blind in Vinton, Iowa. It tells the story of 15-year-old Wilder’s first paid job outside of home and her last terms of schooling. At the end of the novel, she receives a teacher’s certificate, and is employed to teach at the Brewster settlement, 12 miles away.
The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1942, as the fourth to eighth Little House books all were from 1938 to 1944.
We finished The Long Winter, although we are headed into ours! Blech. I think we will enjoy reading about the winter being over and SPRING happening in the Little House world.
I can’t wait to see what recipes correspond with this book!
Peace.
