Launched in 2004, The Little House Archive is designed to provide information and resources to anyone interested in Ingalls Wilder Lane studies, which encompasses Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books and their offshoots as well as the role played by Wilder’s daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, in shaping these books’ political and ideological underpinnings.
In addition to Wilder’s eight novels published between 1932 and 1943, the “Little House” name and myth have extended to several volumes of rediscovered writings, spinoff series, abridgements, and biographies for readers of all ages. Scholars who have taken up Wilder’s body of work have examined its complex depiction of the colonial project of the nineteenth-century United States. Since the 1970s, screen adaptations of the Little House books have expanded and responded to the source material in increasingly complex ways.
Screen
Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Young Pioneers (1976–1978)
Beyond the Prairie (1998, 2001)
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie (2005)
Little House on the Prairie (2026–)
About the Site Owner
Benjamin Lefebvre received his Ph.D. in English from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. His scholarship on screen adaptations of and print extensions to the work of Laura Ingalls Wilder appears in Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature (2013) and Children and Cultural Memory in Texts of Childhood (2014).