Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 357
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ISBN-10 : 9780062094889
ISBN-13 : 0062094882
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Little House on the Prairie by : Laura Ingalls Wilder

The third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series—now available as an ebook! This digital version features Garth Williams's classic illustrations, which appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for the big skies of the Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their house. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. Just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous conflict. The nine Little House books are inspired by Laura's own childhood and have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories.

Little House in the Ozarks

Little House in the Ozarks
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Publisher : Galahad Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0883659689
ISBN-13 : 9780883659687
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Little House in the Ozarks by : Laura Ingalls Wilder

A collection of writings by the author of the Little House series.

The Wilder Life

The Wilder Life
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781101486535
ISBN-13 : 1101486538
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis The Wilder Life by : Wendy McClure

For anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession. Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder-a fantastic realm of fiction, history, and places she's never been to, yet somehow knows by heart. She retraces the pioneer journey of the Ingalls family- looking for the Big Woods among the medium trees in Wisconsin, wading in Plum Creek, and enduring a prairie hailstorm in South Dakota. She immerses herself in all things Little House, and explores the story from fact to fiction, and from the TV shows to the annual summer pageants in Laura's hometowns. Whether she's churning butter in her apartment or sitting in a replica log cabin, McClure is always in pursuit of "the Laura experience." Along the way she comes to understand how Wilder's life and work have shaped our ideas about girlhood and the American West. The Wilder Life is a loving, irreverent, spirited tribute to a series of books that have inspired generations of American women. It is also an incredibly funny first-person account of obsessive reading, and a story about what happens when we reconnect with our childhood touchstones-and find that our old love has only deepened.

Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie
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Publisher : OXFORD University Press
Total Pages : 76
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ISBN-10 : 0194244423
ISBN-13 : 9780194244428
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Little House on the Prairie by : Jann Huizenga

'Let's go see the West,' said Pa. 'The land is flat and the grass grows thick and high. Animals run freely and there are no settlers. Only Indians live there.'So, more than a hundred years ago, the Ingalls family went by covered wagon into Kansas - Indian Territory. This is the true story of how they lived in those exciting, difficult, and sometimes dangerous, times.

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion
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Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Total Pages : 203
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ISBN-10 : 9781641601696
ISBN-13 : 1641601698
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion by : Annette Whipple

Eager young readers can now discover and experience Laura Ingalls Wilder's books like never before. Author Annette Whipple encourages children to engage in pioneer activities while thinking deeper about the Ingalls and Wilder families as portrayed in the nine Little House books. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion provides brief introductions to each Little House book, chapter-by-chapter story guides, and "Fact or Fiction" sidebars, plus 75 activities, crafts, and recipes that encourage kids to "Live Like Laura" using easy-to-find supplies. Thoughtful questions help the reader develop appreciation and understanding of Wilder's stories. Every aspiring adventurer will enjoy this walk alongside Laura from the big woods to the golden years.

Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane

Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9780826266590
ISBN-13 : 0826266592
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane by : John E. Miller

The mother-daughter partnership that produced the Little House books has fascinated scholars and readers alike. Now, John E. Miller, one of America’s leading authorities on Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, combines analyses of both women to explore this collaborative process and shows how their books reflect the authors’ distinctive views of place, time, and culture. Along the way, he addresses the two most controversial issues for Wilder/Lane aficionados: how much did Lane actually contribute to the writing of the Little House books, and what was Wilder’s real attitude toward American Indians. Interpreting these writers in their larger historical and cultural contexts, Miller reconsiders their formidable artistic, political, and literary contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s. He looks at what was happening in 1932—from depression conditions and politics to chain stores and celebrity culture—to shed light on Wilder’s life, and he shows how actual “little houses” established ideas of home that resonated emotionally for both writers. In considering each woman’s ties to history, Miller compares Wilder with Frederick Jackson Turner as a frontier mythmaker and examines Lane’s unpublished history of Missouri in the context of a contemporaneous project, Thomas Hart Benton’s famous Jefferson City mural. He also looks at Wilder’s Missouri Ruralist columns to assess her pre–Little House values and writing skills, and he readdresses her literary treatment of Native Americans. A final chapter shows how Wilder’s and Lane’s conservative political views found expression in their work, separating Lane’s more libertarian bent from Wilder’s focus on writing moralist children’s fiction. These nine thoughtful essays expand the critical discussion on Wilder and Lane beyond the Little House. Miller portrays them as impassioned and dedicated writers who were deeply involved in the historical changes and political challenges of their times—and contends that questions over the books’ authorship do not do justice to either woman’s creative investment in the series. Miller demystifies the aura of nostalgia that often prevents modern readers from seeing Wilder as a real-life woman, and he depicts Lane as a kindred artistic spirit, helping readers better understand mother and daughter as both women and authors.

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780307951496
ISBN-13 : 0307951499
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by : Ken Ludwig

Outlines an engaging way to instill an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's classic works in children, outlining a family-friendly method that incorporates the history of Shakespearean theater and society.

On the Banks of Plum Creek

On the Banks of Plum Creek
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Publisher : Zondervan
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 9780060885403
ISBN-13 : 0060885408
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis On the Banks of Plum Creek by : Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

Little House Friends

Little House Friends
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 72
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ISBN-10 : 0060278943
ISBN-13 : 9780060278946
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Little House Friends by : Heather Henson

Laura Ingalls shares adventures and good times with her friends while growing up on the western frontier.

The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #234)

The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #234)
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Publisher : Library of America
Total Pages : 829
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ISBN-10 : 9781598532616
ISBN-13 : 1598532618
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #234) by : Brooks D. Simpson

This third volume of the ground-breaking eyewitness narrative that has been called a “masterpiece” traces events from January 1863 to March 1864—a crucial period in the American Civil War Spanning the crucial months from January 1863 to March 1864, this third volume of The Library of America’s highly acclaimed four volume series presents an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union closer to victory and slavery closer to destruction. It brings together more than 140 contemporary letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages, and poems by more than eighty participants and observers, among them Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Mary Chesnut, Clement Vallandigham, Henry Adams, Charlotte Forten, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and George Templeton Strong, as well as Union officers Robert Gould Shaw, Charles B. Haydon, and Henry Livermore Abbott; Confederate diarists Catherine Edmondston, Kate Stone, and Judith McGuire; and Alabama soldier Samuel Pickens, Iowa housewife Catharine Peirce, Kentucky preacher George Richard Browder, and Kansas clergyman Richard Cordley. The selections include vivid and haunting eyewitness narratives of some of the war’s most famous battles—Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Fort Wagner, Chickamauga, Chattanooga—as well as firsthand accounts of the merciless guerrilla war in Missouri and Kansas; the Richmond bread riot and the New York draft riots; the controversies surrounding the use of black soldiers and the Lincoln administration’s curtailment of civil liberties; and the struggles of civilians both black and white to survive increasingly harsh wartime conditions. Each volume features a detailed chronology of events, biographical notes about the writers, textual and explanatory notes, and original hand-drawn endpaper maps by expert Civil War cartographer Earl McElfresh. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.