Laura Ingalls Wilder

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born

February 07, 1867 in near Pepin, Wisconsin, The United States

died

February 10, 1957

gender

female

website

http://www.lauraingallswilder.com/

genre

Children's Books

influences

own experience, her daugher Rose Wilder Lane

About this author

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Ingalls wrote a series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood growing up in a pioneer family. She also wrote a regular newspaper column and kept a diary as an adult moving from South Dakota to Missouri, the latter of which has been published as a book.

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Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Average rating: 4.13 · 296,060 ratings · 7,730 reviews · 115 distinct works

	Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 60,348 ratings — published 1935 — 71 editions	My rating:
	Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 4.12 avg rating — 50,635 ratings — published 1932 — 48 editions	My rating:
	The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 4.34 avg rating — 42,073 ratings — published 1953 — 10 editions	My rating:
	On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 4.15 avg rating — 28,250 ratings — published 1937 — 53 editions	My rating:
	Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 20,828 ratings — published 1941 — 36 editions	My rating:
	By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 19,257 ratings — published 1939 — 43 editions	My rating:
	The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 18,761 ratings — published 1940 — 36 editions	My rating:
	These Happy Golden Years (Little House #8) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 16,851 ratings — published 1943 — 35 editions	My rating:
	Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 16,368 ratings — published 1933 — 39 editions	My rating:
	The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 3.82 avg rating — 11,147 ratings — published 1971 — 28 editions	My rating:

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Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House (11 books)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator)

4.13 avg rating — 287,802 ratings

Little House Chapter Books: Laura (14 books)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Renée Graef (Illustrator)

4.00 avg rating — 1,686 ratings

Quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

tags: happy , honesty , life

635 people liked it

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

252 people liked it

“There's no great loss without some small gain.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie

tags: little-house

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