For the first time in the history of the Little House books,
this new edition features Garth Williams'' interior art in vibrant,
full color, as well as a beautifully redesigned cover.
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they
leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered
wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod
beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a
wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged
door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores,
and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music
of Pa''s fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper
plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard
together to overcome these troubles.
And so continues Laura Ingalls Wilder''s beloved story of a
pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House books have been
cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into
America''s frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable
story.
關於作者:
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in the log cabin
described in Little House in the Big Woods. She and her
family traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest. Later, Laura
and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, made their own covered-wagon trip
with their daughter, Rose, to Mansfield, Missouri. There, believing
in the importance of knowing where you began in order to appreciate
how far you''ve come, Laura wrote about her childhood growing up on
the American frontier. For millions of readers Laura lives on
forever as the little pioneer girl in the beloved Little House
books.