Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography - Hardcover

William Anderson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060201134 ISBN 13: 9780060201135

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1992

Synopsis

A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the American prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books

About this title

About the Author:

William Anderson has written many books of history, biography, and travel. As a teacher, he has often taught the books of Mark Twain, and he visited Twain's homesites while researching this book. He is also the author of the picture-book biography Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography. Mr. Anderson lives and writes in Michigan.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-7-- This biography of the quintessential pioneer girl who lived the ``Little House'' stories and later captured them for posterity in her books is substantial in length and content. Like the subject's enduring series, it not only chronicles growing up on the frontier, but also pictures a way of life that has long since vanished. Many more people and events from Wilder's childhood and mature years appear here than in other juvenile accounts. Quotations from her works are woven into the text. Anderson brings credentials to the work, yet falters when discussing Wilder's awards. He states that Little House in the Big Woods (1932) became a Newbery Honor Book, when, in fact, On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937, both HarperCollins) was the first of the series so named. Compounding the error, he describes an Honor Book as ``the most outstanding children's book of the year.'' These inaccuracies aside, Anderson's colorful and detailed biography should prove popular with ``Little House'' devotees and students reporting on notable women or authors. Two sections of black-and-white photographs are included. --Pat Katka, San Diego Public Library
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0060201134
• ISBN 13: 9780060201135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 44