A story of frontier love and courage...Newlyweds Molly and David are only sixteen and eighteen years old when they pack up their wagon and head west across the plains in search of a new homestead. At first their new life is full of promise: The wheat is high, the dugout is warm and cozy, and a new b[...]

Long, long ago, a little girl named Laura Ingalls headed west toward the prairie with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters, Mary and Carrie, and their good old bulldog, Jack. They traveled far each day in their covered wagon, driving through tall grass until they found just the right spot for their new home.[...]

More than 100 recipes introduce the foods and cooking of Laura Ingalls Wilder's pioneer childhood, chronicled in her classic Little House books.Notable Children's Books of 1979 (ALA)Best Books of 1979 (SLJ)Notable 1979 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)Children's Books of 1979 (Libr[...]

The pioneer spirit lives on...Readers around the world know and love Laura, the little girl born in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and raised in covered wagons and on wide open prairies. Now Little House fans can learn more about "Half-pint" in this, the first picture book biography book of Laura Ingall[...]

Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and "Our Town" is both an affectionate portrait of American li[...]

Provides subjects aimed at attracting and sustaining reluctant readers, particularly boys. This work includes illustrations and photography, and a variety of non-fiction features to help support NLS non-fiction objectives, and a Take-Home card to support your Home-School agreement. It is part of the[...]

From the prizewinning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever, here is the fascinating biography of Charles Jackson, the author of "The Lost Weekend"--a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted gay man in mid-century America, and what one had to do wi[...]

This is a winning collection from an author writing on his favourite topic: love. Each emotionally involving story illuminates a different kind of love: star-crossed, intense, needy, eternal, unrequited, even comical. Wilder's protagonists will be instantly recognizable to his fans: men and women wh[...]

Draws on documented records and Mrs. Wilder's unpublished memoirs to picture the people, places, and events that informed her ninety years and inspired her well-beloved Little House books[...]

This title provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have emerged from the engagement of anthropologists with southeast Asian communities.[...]

Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote stories that have defined the American frontier for generations of readers. As both author and character in her own books, she became one of the most famous figures in American children's literature. Her famous Little House on the Prairie series, based on her childhood in [...]