BRITANNICA BEGINNER BIOS LAURA INGALLS WILDER CHILDREN’S AUTHOR CORONA BREZINA Britannica Educational Publishing IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROSEN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
TALES FROM THE PRAIRIE In 1932 Laura Ingalls Wilder published a children’s book called Little House in the Big Woods It told the story of the family life and adventures of a five-year-old girl who lived on the American frontier in the 1870s It was different from other books written about the past Wilder had personally experienced the events she described The book was based on her own life It Laura Ingalls Wilder is shown in a photograph taken when she was about fifty years old while she was writing for a weekly farm magazine 4 CHAPTER ONE
TALES FROM THE PRAIRIE is not considered an autobiography autobiography though An autobiography autobiography is a history of a person’s life written by that person Wilder changed around some facts when she wrote her stories Readers loved Wilder’s account of the joys and challenges challenges of frontier life Her descriptions of old-fashioned everyday routines as the seasons changed made kids feel like An illustration from 1867 shows a common pioneer’s home on the Western frontier the log cabin and covered wagon would have been familiar to Laura A covered wagon is a horse-drawn horse-drawn wagon with an arched canvas top Vocabulary The FRONTIER is a region at the edge of settled land in a country 5
