Who was Laura Ingalls Wilder?

by Patricia Demuth

Other authorsTimothy Foley (Illustrator)

Paper Book, 2013

Status

Available

Call number

813/.52B

Series

Who Was ...? (Who HQ) (58)

Publication

New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2013]

Description

"Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods" in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. It wasn't until after she was sixty that Laura Ingalls Wilder started chronicling those times, which resulted in nine Little House books, a hit TV series that ran for eight years, and her own permanent place as a heroine of the American West"--

User reviews

LibraryThing member Dmtcer

I loved LIW when I was a little girl - she was my hero, and I wanted to be her. My upper primary students are doing a unit on biographies, and although the Who Was series are a little higher than many of their reading levels, I found this book to be a delightful look at the life and times of a

pioneer girl and her family.

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LibraryThing member Dmtcer

pioneer girl and her family.

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LibraryThing member rjrubylou

I only gave this book three stars due to some grammatical errors that the editor should have paid attention to before publishing this book. Other than that, I know that my students will thoroughly enjoy this book. I plan on reading excerpts from certain chapters as I lead my third grade library

students through their unit on Westward Expansion and their individual research projects on pioneer life. This book is perfect for introducing kids to frontier and pioneer life, and Laura Ingalls Wilder is a person that I believe both boys and girls will easily relate to and make connections with.

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