Tells the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder's life from her days as a small child on the Kansas prairie to her years as a successful children's author, working with her daughter Rose; and includes details about her family's life that were left out of her popular books.
Almanzo Wilder has many homey adventures as a young boy growing up on a farm in New York State in the 1860s, and comes to the momentous decision that farming is the life he wants for his future.
After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
Presents the daily experiences and adventures of young Caroline Quiner, the girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
[adaptation by Heather Henson] ; adapted from the Caroline years books by Maria D. Wilkes ; illustrated by Doris Ettlinger
Henson, Heather
2000
Caroline Quiner, who grows up to be the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, shares all kinds of adventures with her brothers and sisters on their small farm in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Caroline Quiner, who grows up to become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, spends time with neighbors, makes a new friend, and attends the Maple Frolic in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Rose meets a girl named Alva, a neighbor at her Missouri farm, and together they explore the hills, pick pokeweed, explore a cave, and have other adventures in the Ozark Mountains.
