On the Banks of Plum Creek (#3 Little House)

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder

Young Adult

Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and America's best-loved pioneer family. After all their travelling, from the Big Woods and the Prairie, the Ingalls family have found a place to settle - Plum Creek. Now Mary and Laura can go to school as there's a town close by. But how will they settle in such a busy place after the wild lands in which they've grown up? The timeless stories that inspired a TV series can now be read by a new generation of children. On the Banks of Plum Creek is the sequel to Little House in the Big Woods and Little House on the Prairie.


Product Information

Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in Wisconsin in 1867. Her family moved around, travelling from Missouri to Kansas, Minnesota and back to Wisconsin. Eventually the family settled in De Smet, Dakota Territory and Laura worked regularly as a seamstress and teacher. She stopped working when she married Almanzo Wilder in 1885. Little House in the Big Woods was first published in 1932, Little House on the Prairie in 1935, and five more books in the Little House series followed. Laura also wrote Farmer Boy about her husband's childhood, and three more books were published posthumously. Laura was five times the recipient of the Newbery Honor Award for her distinguished contribution to American literature for children: On the Banks of Plum Creek (1938), By the Shores of Silver Lake (1940), The Long Winter (1941), Little Town on the Prairie (1942), These Happy Golden Years (1944). The books are charmingly illustrated with Garth Williams' black and white drawings from the 1953 editions.

General Fields

  • : 9781405272179
  • : Farshore
  • : Farshore
  • : 0.254
  • : January 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : May 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • : Paperback
  • : Garth Williams
  • : English
  • : 813.52
  • : 304
  • : black & white illustrations