Books like Laura Ingalls Wilder by Janet Spaeth

A charming first look at early American pioneer life, following young Laura Ingalls and her family as they live in a simple Wisconsin cabin, learn chores, and grow together on the Big Woods frontier.

After an October blizzard, Laura's family retreats from their claim shanty to the nearby town, confronting a harsh winter that a Sioux Indian prophesied will last seven months of relentless bad weather.

The Ingalls family leaves debt‑ridden Minnesota, with Mary now blind, to seek new opportunities. Pa works for a railroad in Dakota Territory, then brings his wife and children to become pioneers in the nascent town of De Smet.

Almanzo Wilder's early childhood on a New York farm is depicted, introducing his parents and siblings as he grows up around age eight, marking the first volume of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series.

Laura and her family settle in Minnesota, living first in a dugout before a new house is built, while enduring floods, blizzards, and grasshopper infestations.

Set in 19th‑century South Dakota, Laura Ingalls Wilder balances teaching, family life, and the budding courtship with her future husband Almanzo, while shaping her future and that of her children.

When Laura Ingalls and her family leave Wisconsin, they trek west to Kansas Territory, settle on the prairie, and begin a new life—only to be drawn into a dangerous conflict.

An exploration of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s famous children’s novels through the lens of history and literary criticism, showing how both disciplines illuminate each other.

Recipes based on the pioneer food written about in the "Little House" books of Laura Ingalls Wilder, along with quotes from the books and descriptions of the food and cooking of pioneer times.

Ursula K. Le Guin began to draw attention in the late 1960s with the publication of A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969). The former, a young adult fantasy, established Le Guin as America's foremost contemporary fantasist; the latter, a science fiction novel, embroiled her in a feminist controversy that continues to this day. Both books started Le Guin on the road to being one of the most award-winning writers in America. As an academically trained critic in her own right, Le Guin has never shied from critical confrontation, but she prefers discussion to warfare. For thirty years, she has maintained a dialogue with her critics, exploring with them her changing views on feminism, environmentalism, and utopia. A writer of realistic fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, children's literature, fantasy, poetry, reviews, and critical essays, Le Guin challenges genre classifications and writes what she will. Dancing with Dragons brings together for the first time the various strands of Le Guin criticism to show how the author's dialogue with the critics has informed and influenced her work and her own critical stance. Well-known literary critics such as Robert Scholes, Fredric Jameson, and Harold Bloom have declared Le Guin to be a major voice in American letters. This volume examines how that reputation developed.

An insightful reader’s companion that examines Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie, exploring its frontier myth, literary significance, and connections to the television series.