Laura Ingalls Wilder is one of my favorite writers! I remember reading the Little House books when I was little and still enjoy reading them now!
If anybody says that you're too old to read the Little House series books, they're lying.

Picked this book up a couple years ago in South Dakota but didn’t read it. I decided to read through it as I plan a trip to some historical LIW sites this spring.
I read all her books multiple times in my youth and loved them all. The biography was a good factual review of her life and especially the locations where she lived.

I have read a lot about Laura Ingalls Wilder over the years, yet this biography provided a useful chronology as well as information and details that I had not encountered before.

I read the Little House on the Prairie books as a child and just assumed then that the people in the book were fiction and as a child I never gave one thought about the author. When I found an article about her sister Mary on the internet recently it made me pause and think about the author and her life. So I went online to find if there were any books about Laura Ingalls Wilder and found this one. The book was an easy read (I finished it in about 3 hours), almost like it was aimed for children. I would have like a few more concrete details but still found it very interesting. Laura Wilder lived during a time where covered wagons were the norm through times where automobiles were prevalent. It gave me a renewed interest to read her books as an adult knowing they were based on true life experiences and were not just fiction.

A very enjoyable read. Gives her biography nicely without giving away too much. In certain places, the book tells you where to read a certain story in a book Laura Ingalls wrote. I love reading about her and her life.

This was a really nice Biography of Laura and her families...and later in the book it almost is a biography of Rose. But with Laura and Rose being so close it would almost be hard to keep the two lives separate in telling of Laura's you had to mix some of Rose's in. It has some photos of the Ingallas and the Wilders and where they lived etc.

It was told with some actual quotes from Laura or Rose which made it nice. It was kind of story form but yet told almost as if the author was sitting beside you visiting with you.

This version didn't let on that the Wilder's had a very tough life, where as another book I read let me to believe their lives were very hard and Almonzo was ALWAYS sick. But he lived to be 90 and worked his farm almost up until his death. (As did Laura) It also told of her writing her stories and her interaction (when she was able) with children or adults in book signings etc. which again is different than I had read before as before they implied Laura hated to be out in public and didn't like children very much at all... but according to this biography she loved children and hated to not write them all back from the mail she received. Or she loved having visitors stop and she would entertain them with milk and cookies and often telling them her stories. I learnt quite a bit from this book.

Not what I expected - I enjoyed the book but it was geared toward kids, I think.

A simple and evocative summary of Laura's life that beautifully recaptures the essence of the Little House on the Prairie books. Took me right back...

This is such a good read! Her life is so fascinating and the book was hard to set down. I recommend this to older students who have read the Laura Ingalls Wilder series.

At times I found myself thinking that William Anderson had the easiest job ever – his biography subject had already told the whole world about the details of her life through her own writings and so the subject of the biography had already done most of Anderson’s work. This thinking is unfair to Anderson, of course, but I felt that way at times because I have read all of Wilder’s books and therefore many events were not new to me. However, Anderson does a nice job of trying to present the facts and goes into much greater depth of issues than Wilder ever does in her books which are accessible to very young children. Since I did know the basic events in Wilder’s early life, I found Anderson’s book most interesting when he told about her life after her marriage to Almanzo Wilder and their life in Mansfield, Missouri. Those children familiar with the Little House books will most likely enjoy reading more about Wilder and her love for family, the land, and children.

Good book and easy read for young readers wanting to know more about the author of the Little House series.

When Laura was little she did not have any dolls finally one day on her birthday her parents surprised her with a doll.