The Little House Collection Color Box Set by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams, Paperback
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It is a winter of luxury for the Ingalls family as they are given all the provisions they need in the large, comfortable house. They spend a cozy winter with their new friends, Mr. and Mrs. Boast, and both families look forward to starting their new claims in the spring. When the family reunites at the railroad camp, Laura meets her cousin Lena and the two become good friends. The story begins when the family is about to leave Plum Creek, shortly after the family has recovered from the scarlet fever which caused Mary to become blind. The family welcomes a visit from Aunt Docia, whom they had not seen for several years. She suggests that Pa and Ma move west to the rapidly developing Dakota Territory, where Pa could work in Uncle Henry's railroad camp.
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After the move, Ruth loses her job and, though she had not intended to become a mother, she falls pregnant. After the birth of her child, she suffers post-natal depression, and Patrick's mother Elizabeth, the domineering matriarch of the Cleary family, begins to take over Ruth's role as mother and homemaker. Having been manipulated by her mother-in-law into a stay at a "rest home", Ruth is so medicated she can barely function, but she rallies, and finally wrests control of her life in a final Gothic twist. However, the family also ends up meeting a lot of trouble on the prairie.
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Eventually, tall city buildings that block her view of the sun, stars, and moon—the countryside is nowhere in sight—surround her. Throughout this book, Laura's struggles with order and commitment are highlighted. Her grades in school are no longer perfect, and she finds less pleasure in her unchanging life, growing restless and agitated.
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They get extremely sick with “fever ‘n’ ague” which is a fever with severe chills and shaking, later revealed to be malaria. The family is cared for by Dr. Tan, an African American doctor, who helps the whole family back to health. The book also features the Osage tribe who owns land that the Ingall’s family lives on. Her mother has a prejudice against the Native Americans while Laura’s own feelings are more those of a child.
Combined with her love of books and experience as a children’s specialist bookseller, the goal is to share her passion for children’s literature to grow readers. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, she now lives with her husband and three children near Boulder, Colorado. Several months later, after Almanzo has finished building a house on his tree claim, he asks Laura if she would mind getting married within a few days. His sister and his mother have their hearts set on a large church wedding, which Pa cannot afford.
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Virginia Lee Burton’s simple yet inspirational story, The Little House, proves that every happy ending begins with a humble beginning—and reminds us all that happy endings are possible. The original nine novels from the Little House series are designed for the 3rd to 7th grade reading level. One day, a wrecking crew comes, presumably to demolish her, but the Little House doesn't mind because she has come to consider herself that she's "just in the way" and "no good to anybody". She also resolves that she should be glad she has lived for as long as she did. Much to her delight, it turns out that they had come to move her out to the country and fix her up so that a new couple can come and live in her. To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details.
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Finally, the trains begin running again, bringing the Ingalls family a Christmas barrel full of good things – including a turkey. In the last chapter, they sit down to enjoy their Christmas dinner in May. Little House in the Big Woods describes the homesteading skills Laura observed and began to practice during her fifth year. The cousins come for Christmas that year, and Laura receives a doll, which she names Charlotte.
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And Pa begins work on the first building in what will soon be a brand-new town on the shores of Silver Lake. The series continues with The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, and These Happy Golden Years. Laura finally meets Alonzo in Little Town on the Prairie and the two become more acquainted in These Happy Golden Years. At around the same time as occurrence of the literary meetings, Almanzo Wilder begins escorting Laura home from school. Around Christmas, Almanzo offers to take Laura on a sleigh ride after he completes the cutter he is building.
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Her builder decrees that she "may never be sold for gold or silver", but is built sturdy enough to one day see his great-great-grandchildren's great-great-grandchildren living in her. The house watches the seasons pass, and wonders about the lights of the city, which grow ever closer. The story begins as Laura accepts her first job, which is to perform sewing work, in order to earn money for Mary to go to a college for the blind in Iowa.
Notably, the ages of the Wilder children do not appear to be accurate to their real ages in comparison to Almanzo. Royal is stated to be thirteen, and Eliza Jane and Alice twelve and ten respectively, at the time when Almanzo is just prior to nine years old. In reality, when Almanzo turned nine, Royal would have been nineteen, old enough to leave home, and Eliza Jane and Alice would have been sixteen and twelve years old. This makes it likely that parts of the storyline based around the three older children was fabricated, at least in terms of what Almanzo himself could remember.
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The Brewsters are an unhappy family and Laura is deeply uncomfortable observing the way husband and wife quarrel. In one particularly unsettling incident, she wakes in the night to see Mrs Brewster standing over her husband with a knife. It is a bitterly cold winter, and neither the claim shanty nor the schoolhouse can be heated adequately. The children she is teaching, some of whom are older than she is, test her skills as a teacher. Laura grows more self-assured through her time there, and she successfully completes the two-month assignment, with all five of her pupils sorry to see her go. By the Shores of Silver Lake sees the family picking up again and moving to South Dakota.
The book begins just before Wilder's ninth birthday and follows at least two harvest cycles. Set around 1866, it describes in detail the endless chores involved in running the Wilder family farm and Almanzo's part in it. The novel includes stories of Almanzo's brother Royal and his sisters, Eliza Jane and Alice. As Laura Ingalls is growing up in a little house in Kansas, Almanzo Wilder lives on a big farm in New York. He and his brothers and sisters work hard from dawn to supper to help keep their family farm running. Almanzo wishes for just one thing—his very own horse—but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.
There have been many book series and single novels written in this world that Laura created but only hers are the authentic Little House series and that is all this article will focus on. At home, Laura is met by Mr. Boast and Mr. Brewster, who interview Laura for a teaching position at a settlement led by Brewster, twelve miles (19 km) from town. With the aid of his old friend Mr. Edwards, Pa successfully files his claim. As the spring flowers bloom and the prairie comes alive with new settlers, the Ingalls family moves to its new piece of land and begins building what will become their permanent home. The day Pa leaves, however, their beloved bulldog Jack is found dead, which saddens Laura greatly. In actuality, the dog upon whom Jack was based was no longer with the family at this point, but the author inserted his death here to serve as a transition between her childhood and her adolescence.
During the course of the story, Laura is between the ages of seven and nine years old. Laura attends school with her younger sister, Carrie until the weather becomes too severe to permit them to walk to and from the school building. Blizzard after blizzard sweeps through the town over the next few months. The frequent blizzards prevent supply trains from getting through, and food and fuel become scarce and expensive. Eventually, the railroad company suspends all efforts to dig out the trains, leaving the town stranded.
The two then agree to an additional “year of grace” on the farm. The ninth book in the series, The First Four Years (novel), and the final book to feature Laura as the protagonist, follows the earliest years of Laura and Almanzo's marriage. Found after Wilder's death, the book was published in its original draft form in 1971.
The Ingalls family finances have improved to the point that Pa can sell a cow to purchase a sewing machine for Ma. Laura continues to teach and work as a seamstress, and Almanzo invites Laura to attend a new "singing school" with him and her classmates. On the last evening of singing school, while driving Laura home, Almanzo – who has by now been courting Laura for three years – proposes to her. During their next ride, Almanzo presents Laura with a garnet-and-pearl ring and they share their first kiss. So as much food as possible must be stored away in the little house before winter came.
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