Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Little House on the Prairie series, also called the Frontier Girl or Pioneer Girl series, was written by Laura Ingalls Wilder about her childhood in a pioneer family. The most well-known of the books is Little House on the Prairie. The books are generally classified as historical fiction rather than autobiography. The version of the books currently in print was illustrated by Garth Williams. There are now spinoff books based on some of Wilder's female relations, including her mother, Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls, and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. The books also formed the basis of a television series, called Little House on the Prairie, starring Michael Landon. List of Books in the Series Little House in the Big Woods (1932) Farmer Boy (1933) - about her husband's childhood on a farm in New York Little House on the Prairie (1935) On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937) By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939) The Long Winter (1940) Little Town on the Prairie (1941) These Happy Golden Years (1943) The First Four Years (1971, published posthumously) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.