But in the evenings, Laura makes time for a new caller, Almanzo Wilder. Laura spends many hours sewing shirts to help Ma and Pa get enough money to send Mary to a college for the blind. But in addition to the parties, socials, and “literaries,” work must continue. Young Almanzo Wilder, who has settled in the town, risks his life to save the town.ĭe Smet is rejuvenated with the beginning of spring. With snow piled as high as the rooftops, it’s impossible for trains to deliver supplies, and the townspeople, including Laura and her family, are starving. Then it snows almost without stopping until April. The first terrible storm comes to the barren prairie in October. Pa starts work on the first building of the brand new town, located on the shores of Silver Lake. When Ma, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and baby Grace join him, they become the first settlers in the town of De Smet. Pa Ingalls heads west to the unsettled wilderness of the Dakota Territory. Millions of grasshoppers cover the field and everything on the farm, and by the end of a week, there is no wheat crop left. But then, just before the wheat is ready to harvest, a strange glittering cloud fills the sky, blocking out the sun. The money for the lumber will come from their first wheat crop.

The Ingalls family lives in a sod house beside Plum Creek in Minnesota until Pa builds them a new house made of sawed lumber. When Pa decides to sell the log house in the woods, the family packs up and moves from Wisconsin to Kansas, where Pa builds them their little house on the prairie! Living on the farm is different from living in the woods, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie. Almanzo wishes for just one thing-his very own horse-but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility. He and his brothers and sisters work hard from dawn to supper to help keep their family farm running.

Though many of their neighbors are wolves and panthers and bears, the woods feel like home, thanks to Ma’s homemade cheese and butter and the joyful sounds of Pa’s fiddle.Īs Laura Ingalls is growing up in a little house in Kansas, Almanzo Wilder lives on a big farm in New York. Meet the Ingalls family-Laura, Ma, Pa, Mary, and baby Carrie, who all live in a cozy log cabin in the big woods of Wisconsin in the 1870s.

They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family. The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. This nine-book paperback box set of the classic series features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams.

The little house books complete set