[Patricia]

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957)
Little Town on the Prairie (1941)
Cover illustration by Helen Moore Sewell (1896–1957)

The seventh book in the series. Laura is growing up. She gets a job, and helps pay for her blind sister to go to college. Meanwhile, the town on the prairie is getting bigger. As usual, Pa Ingalls’ crops are threatened by pests but there is less bad weather than usual.


The Little House Series:
1. Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
2. Farmer Boy (1933)
3. Little House on the Prairie (1935)
4. On the Banks Of Plum Creek (1937)
5. By The Shores Of Silver Lake (1939)
6. The Long Winter (1940)
7. Little Town on the Prairie (1941)
8. These Happy Golden Years (1943)
9. The First Four Years (1971)

(It was not possible to include the Garth Williams [1912-1996] illustrations because they are still in copyright everywhere. This book is in the Canadian public domain, and in that of all life+50 years countries.)