Little Town on the Prairie

Little Town on the Prairie
Front dust jacket with Sewell's illustration
AuthorLaura Ingalls Wilder
IllustratorHelen Sewell and
Mildred Boyle[1]
Garth Williams (1953)[2]
SeriesLittle House
GenreChildren's novel
Family saga
Western
PublisherHarper & Brothers
Publication date
November 20, 1941[3]
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages288;[1] 290 pp.[2]
OCLC6389205
LC ClassPZ7.W6461 Liv[1]
Preceded byThe Long Winter 
Followed byThese Happy Golden Years 

Little Town on the Prairie is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1941, the seventh of nine books in her Little House series. It is set in De Smet, South Dakota. It opens in the spring after the Long Winter and ends as Laura becomes a school teacher so she can help her sister, Mary, stay at a school for the blind in Vinton, Iowa. It tells the story of 15-year-old Laura's first paid job outside of home and her last term of schooling. At the end of the novel, she receives a teacher's certificate and is employed to teach at the Brewster settlement, 12 miles (19 km) away.

The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1942, as the fourth to eighth Little House books all were from 1938 to 1944.[4]

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