Laura Ingalls Wilder was a pioneer girl. Her family helped settle the American frontier. She wrote about her life in a series of eight books.

The Ingalls family moved a lot. They were farmers. They looked for good land and climate. Pa was a good storyteller. He played the fiddle. Ma taught the girls to read and do housework. Wilder’s books include rich details of daily frontier life. Many schools use them for social studies.

As a girl, Wilder loved to read. She wrote poems. She taught at a prairie school. At age eighteen, she married Almanzo Wilder. They settled at Rocky Ridge Farm in Missouri.

Wilder was a wife, mother, and farmer. She wrote for local newspapers. Wilder’s daughter urged her to record her pioneer childhood. Her first book, Little House in the Big Woods, was published in 1932. Wilder was then 65 years old. She wrote the other books over the next ten years.

The Little House books are still very popular. People everywhere read and enjoy them. A TV show based on Wilder’s books, Little House on the Prairie, aired for nine seasons. Many groups honored Wilder for her writing.