The set includes: Little House in the Big Woods Little House on the Prairie Farmer Boy On
the Banks of Plum Creek By the Shores of Silver Lake The Long Winter Little Town on the
Prairie These Happy Golden Years and The First Four Years. Little House in the Big Woods
Wolves and panthers and bears roam the deep Wisconsin woods in the late 1870's. In those same
woods Laura lives with Pa and Ma and her sisters Mary and Baby Carrie in a snug little
house built of logs. Pa hunts and traps. Ma makes her own cheese and butter. All night long
the wind howls lonesomely but Pa plays the fiddle and sings keeping the family safe and
cozy.Little House on the Prairie Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house and the
family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas and there finally
Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult even dangerous
but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the
prairie.Farmer Boy While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie
Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters
work at their chores from dawn to supper most days -- no matter what the weather. There is
still time for fun though especially with the horses which Almanzo loves more than
anything.On the Banks of Plum Creek Laura's family's first home in Minnesota is made of sod
but Pa builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek. The money for materials
will come from their first wheat crop. Then just before the wheat is ready to harvest a
strange glittering cloud fills the sky blocking out the sun. Soon millions of grasshoppers
cover the field and everything on the farm. In a week's time there is no wheat crop left at
all.By the Shores of Silver Lake Pa Ingalls heads west to the unsettled wilderness of the
Dakota Territory. When Ma Mary Laura Carrie and baby Grace join him they become the first
settlers in the town of De Smet. And Pa begins work on the first building in what will soon be
a brand-new town on the shores of Silver Lake.The Long Winter The first terrible storm comes to
the barren prairie in October. Then it snows almost without stopping until April. Snow has
reached the rooftops and no trains can get through with food or coal. The people of De Smet
are starving including Laura's family who wonder how they're going to make it through this
terrible winter. It is young Almanzo Wilder who finally understands what needs to be done. He
must save the town even if it means risking his own life.Little Town on the Prairie The long
winter is over. With spring come socials parties and Literaries. There is also work to be
done. Laura spends many hours each day sewing shirts to help send Mary to a college for the
blind. But in the evenings Laura makes time for a new caller Almanzo Wilder.These Happy
Golden Years Laura is teaching school and it's terrifying! Most of the students are taller
than she is and she must sleep away from home for the first time. Laura is miserable but the
money is needed to keep Mary in a college for the blind. And every Friday -- no matter what the
weather -- Almanzo Wilder arrives to take Laura home to her family for the weekend. Laura and
Almanzo are courting and even though she's not yet sixteen she knows that this is a time for
new beginnings.The First Four Years Laura and Almanzo Wilder have just been married! Their life
on a small prairie homestead begins with high hopes. But each year seems to bring unexpected
disasters -- storms sickness fire and unpaid debts. These first four years call for courage
strength and a great deal of determination. Always though there is love especially for the
newest member of the family -- baby Rose.
