These Happy Golden Years

These Happy Golden Years
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
March 17, 1943[3]
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages299;[1] 288 pp.[2]
OCLC2145915
LC ClassPZ7.W6461 Th[1]
Preceded byLittle Town on the Prairie 
Followed byThe First Four Years 

These Happy Golden Years is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1943, the eighth of nine books in her Little House series – although it originally ended it.[1] It is based on her later adolescence near De Smet, South Dakota, featuring her short time as a teacher, beginning at age 15, and her courtship with Almanzo Wilder. It spans the time period from 1882 to 1885, when they marry.

The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1944, as were the previous four Little House books.[4]

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