I have just rediscovered Little House on the Prairie...

[Fillyjonk]

Thats it really

But it is REALLY good

ds won't let me stop reading

Had forgotten about these books

dp and I had a big debate about creeks last night

consensus was that a creek involves more rocks than a stream

let us see what google says

ah no, wiki says it IS just a stream, bascially

fillyjonk which boxset did you buy?

wow - am blown away by the wikipaedia info

adore the books and have loads of the later ones saved in my shopping trolley on amazon (but am never allowed to buy them as the shipping from the US is too much )

what a brave and inspirational family

didn't buy a boxset, bella

I have a 3 in 1 for the early ones

the later ones-we are not on them yet but will be seeing what I can find in car boot sales/charity shops

I will say, I have the ones with the helen sewell illustrations (ie the original illustrations) and I really like them. It seems to work well for ds to have some but not lots of illustrations. Also, I think the family she has illustrated does look quite like the ingalls family (see link to pa's bead-this was not a shock to me )

um...you have a citroen, eh, footballmum? Hows that working for you then?

(ps they are very very widely avalible here you know-there is probably some deal with the book people or similar)

i do have a citroen [suspicious emoticon]..how did you guess?

hunted for "those happy golden years" for quite literally years - then found it in the oxfam bookshop for 40p

oh how i danced...

is odd though seeing actual photos of ma, pa etc - somehow i picture them as looking more like the illustrations in the book

yes, those are the ones i remember as well.

will have to keep a look out

annoying as i think i used to own ALL of them when i was little

'these happy golden years' is SUCH an evocative phrase, don't you think?

and is actually such a lovely book

the first four years is very informative but quite a different style of writing i thought..rather detached and unemotional

still, it was a tough time

have just realised that 3 generations of ingalls wilder women gave birth to sons who did not survive.

this is rather sad. possibly some congenital diesease. how

I re read these a few years ago to my children and what struck me most was how when i read them when i was a child i identified completely with Laura but how on re reading them it's her mother than I can empathise with. My life is obviously nothing like hers but it's episodes like the one where laura realises her mother hates dressmaking that really resonated differently this time.

Also, there is a set of books about her mother's childhood - and if you thought Laura had a tough/deprived time you should see what her mother went through.

what are they called? Any link?

I still have the complete set from when I was a child and read them all with the children at bedtime about a year ago, ds was about 7 and dd 6 at the time and they were both entralled by them as well....

After we read them we looked them up on the internet and found these websites which you may like also.....

laura ingalls wilder home

and also this on cap garland which is quite sad as he died very young in an accident.....

And on amazon you used to be able to buy some other books by laura about some of her married life

I have one of the biographies written by one of Roses "adopted" grandchildren. It's really interesting, and gives quite an accurate time line. Can't find it at the moment though....this thread had me looking for it for hours last night!
It is really sad that the line died out. I know Charles Ingalls neices/nephews had children, but not his own.

does anyone know which of the books are actually in print in the uk at the mo? you only seem to get the first 3 (and only if you're very lucky) in "mainstream" bookstores

really? I honestly think they are all in print

complete box set

though I'd get secondhand

isn't that just the first 5 filly? thanks for that though

I'm sure you can get them on ebay/abebooks etc.

wow look at this

I've just finished reading the series through, and do have a few of the extension books.

I think the current opinion is that Laura did write all of the books, but had some editorial help from Rose to make the stories flow better. At the time of her first book, Laura had been writing very successfully for her local papers for some years.

Her little brother was born after 'On the banks of Plum Creek', when they then lived and worked at a hotel for a while iirc.

that doesn't include the Long Winter which is one of my favourites

you can pick them up second hand really easily - try Abebooks

oh dear mn is very bad for the pocket

i now want to buy lots of books as well as expensive makeup

but so far i have not...

ah yes it is isn't it?

but they're only about £4 individually