īefore writing the Little House series Laura Ingalls Wilder was a columnist in a farm journal. The Little House books were reissued by Ursula Nordstrom to be illustrated by Garth Williams. This first book did well when it was first published. The first book of the Little House series, Little House in the Big Woods, was published in 1932. 3.5 Little House on the Prairie (2005 miniseries).3.3 Laura, the Prairie Girl (animated series, 1975).3.2 Little House on the Prairie (TV series, 1974–1983).1.3.2 Depiction of the United States Government.It was published in 1962 and includes commentary by her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. Ī tenth book, the non-fiction On the Way Home, is Laura Ingalls Wilder's diary of the years after 1894, when she, her husband and their daughter moved from De Smet, South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, where they settled permanently. As well as an anime and many spin-off books, there are cookbooks and various other licensed products representative of the books. The Little House books have been adapted for stage or screen more than once, most successfully as the American television series Little House on the Prairie, which ran from 1974 to 1983.
The first draft of a ninth novel was published posthumously in 1971 and is commonly included in the series. The second novel was about her husband's childhood. The appellation "Little House" books comes from the first and third novels in the series of eight published in her lifetime.
Eight of the novels were completed by Wilder, and published by Harper & Brothers. The "Little House" Books is a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, based on her childhood and adolescence in the American Midwest ( Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Missouri) between 18.