Riely Giff, P. 1988. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Growing up in the Little House.
New York: Penguin Group. 0140320741
Plot Summary
Laura Ingalls Wilder was late in years and living on her farm in Missouri, when she looked back on her life and realized that she had had a most unbelievable series of adventures from the time when she was a very little girl, right until the time Text was about Laura Ingalls Wilder. This text was about how she and her family felt moving to the little house on the prairie.
Critical Analysis
This text was dry and took a long time to read even though the text was short. Some chapters such as the politics and advertising were interesting, I still got bogged down. Take a look at the book from the political point of view of Wilder and at her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, a fascinating new way to take the reader in a new direction.
Reviews Experts
Publishers Weekly
Fans of Wilder's popular Little House books will want to turn to this biography to learn which parts of the stories actually happened. Beginning with the first book, set in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, Giff supplies the pertinent facts. Important events, she explains, such as the death of a baby brother and later, the death of Wilder's own child, were left out of the series. This spare account of Wilder's experiences has a reminiscent air; in an author's note, Giff says she wanted children to know "how difficult some of the times in Wilder's life really were." To this end her book is sadder than some of Wilder's fiction. Even after 20 years of journalism, Wilder felt "I didn't know how to write" and was asked to revise the first book, issued in 1932 when she was 65. Ages 7-11.
School Library Journal
Grade 3-6 A brief biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder that may interest readers of the ``Little House'' (Harper) books. Obviously, a short biography of the author of nine autobiographical novels can't give readers much new information about her life. However, Giff does explain that Wilder started writing at age 65, after being encouraged by her daughter, Rose, and describes her life with Almanzo, the birth and death of a son, and her writing for local newspapers. Information about the Laura Ingalls Wilder award is sketchy at best, not stating that the award was first presented to Wilder, and stating that it is given ``to a children's author whose books are wonderful and loved by children.'' Giff includes quotes and facts from the ``Little House'' books, and her biography of the author should appeal to Wilder's fans.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote great descriptions of the world she lived in. This is one of the reasons we know so much about what life was like for people in the 1880’s.
Compare and contrast Laura Ingalls Wilder:Growing up in the Little House to another book about Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Follow Laura’s example and write a descriptive paragraph about the world around you.
Write About the World Around You
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) became one of the most beloved
children’s authors of all time when, in her sixties and seventies, she wrote the Little House series of novels. The novels were the inspiration for a long-running television series.
Giff wrote about how Wilder took the extraordinary things that happened in her life to develop the entire Little House Series that young girls all over fell in love with.
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