FOR ALL YOU LAURA INGALLS WILDER FANS OUT THERE...

You can find out everything you'd ever want to know about this adored author from the website Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Girl.  All your questions will be answered about her family, her friends, her homes, the illustrators of her books, and even Pa's fiddle.

There are also lots of great links.  (Did you know that the book 1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die features the "Laura Ingalls Wilder Country" of De Smet, South Dakota?)

At the age of sixty-five, Wilder published the first of her eight "Little House" books, which she had been encouraged to write by her daughter, Rose. Who can say how many kids have been impacted by these stories about a girl raised on the American Prairie?

Here's the list, including their published date, title, and the years they cover (which was your favorite?):

1932 - Little House in the Big Woods 1871-1872 (Laura's age: 4-5)

1933 - Farmer Boy (about her future husband Almanzo's childhood)

1935 - Little House on the Prairie 1873-1874 (Laura's age: 5-7)

1937 - On the Banks of Plum Creek 1874-1876 (Laura's age: 7-9)

1939 - By the Shores of Silver Lake 1879-1880 (Laura's age: 12-13)

1940 - The Long Winter 1880-1881 (Laura's age: 13-14)

1941 - Little Town on the Prairie 1881-1882 (Laura's age 14-15)

1943 - These Happy Golden Years 1883-1885 (Laura's age: 15-18)