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Book-Length Studies

Eddins, Doris Kerns. A Teacher’s Tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder. Washington: Dept. of Elementary School Principals, National Education Association, 1967.

Garson, Eugenia, comp. and ed. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Songbook: Favorite Songs from the Little House Books. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Arranged for piano and guitar by Herbert Haufrecht. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

Anderson, William. The Story of the Ingalls. Mansfield, MO: Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association, 1971. Rev. ed. Mansfield, MO: Laura Ingalls Wilder Home, 1993. Laura Ingalls Wilder Family Series 1.

Smith, Dorothy. The Wilder Family Story. Malone, NY: Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder Association, 1972.

Anderson, William. The Story of the Wilders: A Biography of Almanzo Wilder and the Family from “Farmer Boy.” N.p.: n.p., 1973. Laura Ingalls Wilder Family Series 2.

Anderson, William, comp and ed. The Ingalls Family Album. De Smet, SD: Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, 1973. 2nd ed. De Smet, SD: Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, 1976.

Anderson, William. Laura Wilder of Mansfield. Mansfield, MS: Laura Ingalls Wilder-Rose Wilder Lane Home and Museum, 1974. Laura Ingalls Wilder Family Series 3.

Anderson, William T. Laura’s Rose: The Story of Rose Wilder Lane, Daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder. De Smet, SD: Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, 1976. Laura Ingalls Wilder Family Series 5.

Walker, Barbara M. The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Classic Stories. Illustrated by Garth Williams. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

Warnock, Alene M. Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Westville Florida Years. Mansfield, MS: Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association, 1979.

Mooney-Getoff, Mary J. Laura Ingalls Wilder, A Bibliography: Writings By and About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Audio Visual Resources: For Researchers, Writers, Teachers, Students, and Those Who Enjoy Reading About Laura. Southold, NY: Wise Owl, 1980.

Anderson, William. The Pepin Story of the Ingalls Family. Text revised at Pepin, Wisconsin, with permission from Willian Anderson. Pepin, WI: Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, 1981.

Anderson, William. A Wilder in the West: The Story of Eliza Jane Wilder. N.p.: n.p., 1985. Laura Ingalls Wilder Family Series 4.

Anderson, William, ed. The Horn Book’s Laura Ingalls Wilder: Articles About and By Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams, and the Little House Books. New ed. Boston: Horn Book, 1987. Laura Ingalls Wilder Family Series 6.

Anderson, William. The Walnut Grove Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Walnut Grove, MN: Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, 1987. Laura Ingalls Wilder Family Series 8.

Spaeth, Janet. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Boston: Twayne, 1987. Twayne United States Authors Series 517.

Hackett, Christine Olivieri. Little House in the Classroom. Illustrated by Vanessa Filkins. Carthage, IL: Good Apple, 1989.

Anderson, William. Little House Country: A Photo Guide to the Home Sites of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Color photography by Leslie A. Kelly. Kansas City, Mo.: Terrell, 1989. Tokyo: Kyuryudo Art Publishing, 1988. New York: Harper, 1990.

Anderson, William. Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Iowa Story. Burr Oak, IW: Laura Ingalls Wilder Park & Museum, 1990. Laura Ingalls Wilder Family Series 7.

Dathe, Mary Jo. Spring Valley: The Laura Ingalls Wilder “Connection,” 1890. 1990. Rev. ed. Spring Valley, MN: Historical Museum, 2001.

Anderson, William T., writ. and ed. Musical Memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Color photography by Leslie A. Kelly. Vancouver, WA: Hear & Learn, 1992.

Walch, Timothy, Dwight M. Miller, Mary E. Evans and Kim Smith, eds. Laura Ingalls Wilder & Rose Wilder Lane: 1937-1939. West Branch, IW: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, 1992.

White, Dan L., and Robert F. White. Laura’s Friends Remember: Close Friends Recall Laura Ingalls Wilder. Hartville, MO: Ashley-Preston, 1992.

Gray, Margie. The Prairie Primer: Literature Based Unit Studies for Grades 3-6 Utilizing the “Little House” Series. Greenbrier, AR: Cadron Creek Christian Curriculum, 1993.

Lasky, Kathryn, and Meribah Knight. Searching for Laura Ingalls: A Reader’s Journey. Photographs by Christopher G. Knight. New York: Macmillan, 1993.

Rozakis, Laurie. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Activities Based on Research from the Laura Ingalls Wilder Homes and Museums. New York: Scholastic Professional, 1993.

Erisman, Fred. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1994. Boise State University Western Writers Series 112.

Miller, John E. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Collins, Carolyn Strom, and Christina Wyss Eriksson. The World of Little House. Illustrated by Deborah Maze and Garth Williams. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

Wolf, Virginia L. Little House on the Prairie: A Reader’s Companion. New York: Twayne, 1996.

Romines, Ann. Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

Subramanian, Jane M. Laura Ingalls Wilder: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical, Bibliographical, and Teaching Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.

Wade, Mary Dodson. Homesteading on the Plains: Daily Life in the Land of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Paintings by Harvey Dunn. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook, 1997.

Collins, Carolyn Strom, and Christina Wyss Eriksson. My Little House Crafts Book: 18 Projects from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Stories. Illustrated by Mary Collier. New York: HarperTrophy, 1998.

Collins, Carolyn Strom, and Christina Wyss Eriksson. Inside Laura’s Little House: The Little House on the Prairie Treasury. Illustrated by Cathy Holly and Garth Williams. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

Cleaveland, Nancy, and Penny Linsenmayer. Charles Ingalls and the U.S. Public Land Laws. N.p.: N.p., 2001.

The Ingalls Family of De Smet. De Smet, SD: Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, 2001.

Anderson, William. The Little House Guidebook. Photographs by Leslie A. Kelly. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Rev. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

Miller, Dwight M., ed. Laura Ingalls Wilder and the American Frontier: Five Perspectives. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 2002.

McCartney, Sharon. The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Gibsons Landing, BC: Nightwood Editions, 2007.

The Best of the LORE. De Smet, SD: Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, 2007.

Fellman, Anita Clair. Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Impact on American Culture. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008.

Miller, John E. Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008.

Lynn, Teresa. Little Lodge on the Prairie: Freemasonry and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Austin: Tranquility Press, 2014.

Greenland, David R. Michael Landon: The Career and Artistry of a Television Genius. Albany, GA: BearManor Media, 2015.

Ketcham, Sallie. Laura Ingalls Wilder: American Writer on the Prairie. New York: Routledge, 2015. Routledge Historical Americans.

Woodside, Christine. Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2016.