BookPal tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder on Her Birth Anniversary

Remembering Laura Ingalls Wilder on
Her Birth Anniversary
Laura Ingalls Wilder (7 FEB 1867 - 10 February 1957), America's beloved. children’s fiction writer was born today! Laura's books engage her young readers with part of America's past. Her Little House on the Prairie books are
of great renown and were inspired from Laura Ingalls’ own childhood. The way she fictionalized her life to make readers love the Ingalls family-despite their flaws is worthy of appreciation to date. Laura Ingalls was also very socially active in the community. She founded organizations, especially for women where people could express and exchange their ideas, and on many numerous occasions, she spoke on literary topics herself. Laura Ingalls Wilder had been significantly contributory in establishing a county library.At the request of her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, who was a famous journalist and novelist, Wilder began to record her family’s early history by writing her autobiography. Later, with substantial changes and additions, this autobiography gave way to the first novel in the Little House series- Little House in the Big Woods and then eventually, the rest of the series. The Little House books have been translated to over thirty languages and have sold more than sixty million copies. Today, on her birthday, I find it a good time to urge you to read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books and suggest her books to your children. There are plenty of
works inspired from her works as well. Her autobiography is one of the many excellent biographies her life has inspired. “The real things haven’t changed. It is still best, to be honest and truthful; to
make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures, and have courage when things go wrong.”
- Laura Ingalls Wilder