This is a fascinating book if you love the Little House series as much as I do. It has many pictures of the family as well as pictures and descriptions of places they lived. I have read this several times and wouldn't mind owning it.

Published a year after my first Little House trip this book illustrated the same photos that I tried to capture, only this includes the interiors and artifacts that I couldn't. Bill Anderson and Les Kelley created a perfect memory book for anyone who has toured or those who want to see the real places of Laura Ingalls Wilder's pioneer world.

My husband bought this for me on one of his recent business trips; he stopped at the Walnut Creek site. It is, primarily, a pictorial view of all the places Laura and her family lived throughout her childhood, along with some holding-it-all-together text and quotes from Laura's writings. There are also some absolutely stunning landscape photos.

Basically, there's not a lot here that I didn't know, but the packaging is a little different.

If you liked the Laura Ingalls Wilder books you will probably like this book. It covers the life of Laura and her family and also her husband Almanzo Wilder and daughter Rose Wilder Lane. It gives a chronology of her life with photos of her family and follows the places she lived as a child and an adult. It's also a quick read -- lots of pictures!

If you’ve read and loved the Little House books, you’ll want to read this book full of photos and illustrations related to the life and stories of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The oversize paperback includes historic photos of Laura’s family including aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents; the different sites where she lived with her family; the interior of various homes as well as the furniture and other memorabilia including Pa’s fiddle and Ma’s china shepherdess.

Reading this book is especially rewarding for those who aren’t able to visit the museums and other sites in the various Midwest United States. I loved the origin story of this book: Japanese translator Yumiko Taniguchi introduced the Little House books to Japanese readers through her translated books. In 1987 she wrote to the author, William Anderson, a specialist in the subject of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her times, asking him to describe the land and places depicted in the series, so that Japanese fans could know about the rural beauty of the wide prairies and dense forests. He connected with a photographer and together they “gathered and described the most important aspects of what remains from Laura’s past and what is preserved for the future.” The result is this book.

I was surprised to see that this is published by Harper Perennial, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, because the look and layout of the book is quite unprofessional. The captions don’t always line up with the photos they are next to, and the photos and illustrations are arranged as if by an amateur desktop publisher (a do-it-yourself job).

Despite the nonprofessional look of the book, reading it will surely bring the Little House books to life, and would be a welcome addition to anyone wanting to revisit the pioneer life and times of Laura Ingalls Wilder. It would also make a nice gift for any Little House fan, both young or young at heart.

A visual journal of the people, places, and assorted memorabilia related to Laura Ingalls Wilder. A nice supplement to biographies and other pictorial works about her life as this one gives a broader view of the landscapes where she lived.

Think of this a photo accompaniment to books by or about Laura Ingalls Wilder ... there's not a lot of depth in the material, but it's great to see some of the places, people and things that were key to her story. I would recommend getting this one out of the library, unless you are a real LIW addict and have to own it all.

The historical photos were nice.

We're reading this as a supplement to the Little House series, which we're doing this year in school. Very helpful to show the kids the difference between the fictional stories and the reality of the Ingalls's lives.

Just happened on this - an interesting book tracing the life in pictures of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Pictures of the many places she lived, her family, her homes - Found it put her many books into perspective -- great if you were (are) into her books.

A lot of neat pictures of places and objects from the Little House series. Great background information (cited!).

What a wonderful photographic journey down the Little House on the Prairie memory lane of my youth! I loved reading the series as a child...and loved the television series as well (well, at least the early years). Seeing all the pictures of each book's setting/location, as well as pictures over the years of all the main characters, was a pure delight. It makes me want to plan a vacation to all the Little House museums scattered about.