The First Four Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
The First Four Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
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The First Four Years

Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Narrator: Cherry Jones

Unabridged: 2 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 02/07/2017

Synopsis

Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. Laura is a young pioneer wife now, and must work hard with Almanzo, farming the land around their home on the South Dakota prairie. Soon their baby daughter, Rose, is born, and the young family must face the hardships and triumphs encountered by so many American pioneers.And so Laura Ingalls Wilder's adventure as a little pioneer girl ends, and her new life as a pioneer wife and mother begins. 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.Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts.

About Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) was born in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods. With her family, she pioneered throughout America’s heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in Dakota Territory. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885; their only daughter, Rose, was born the following year. The Wilders moved to Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they established a permanent home. After years of farming, Laura wrote the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The nine Little House books are international classics. Her writings live on into the twenty-first century as America’s quintessential pioneer story.

About Cherry Jones

Cherry Jones won the Tony® Award for best actress for both The Heiress and Doubt, and received two Tony® nominations for her work in A Moon for the Misbegotten and Our Country's Good; she can be seen in the films The Perfect Storm, Erin Brockovich, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and Cold Mountain.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Miranda on December 10, 2020

Bit of a lackluster end to one of my fave series This is an unfinished manuscript. Laura Ingalls Wilder intended to write a full novel on her early years married to Almanzo Wilder but shepassed prior to finishingthe book. Roger Lea MacBride ("adopted" grandson of Rose, Laura's daughter) found this......more

Goodreads review by Majenta on January 11, 2019

I hope that more recently-published editions have fixed the error on page 70 of my Harper & Row copy: Laura powers through labor by remembering one of the hymns Pa used to sing, but it's "Angel Band", NOT "Angel Bank"! Thank you, The Monkees' version of "Angel Bank" at YouTube, with Michael Nesmith......more

Goodreads review by Philip on June 19, 2014

Dad: How many stars? Eleanor: Daddy? I'm afraid I'm going to have to give it four, because two bad things happened. ...Two really bad things, you know? ... ... You know? ... Dad: What two bad things? Eleanor: Well, (view spoiler)[ the baby getting spasms and dying... Dad: I know, that was really, really depressing. An (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Dave on January 07, 2020

The last in the Little House on the Prairie series we listened to through the previous eight books, though I listened o this on my own. It's a different tone, an adult story, after the transition for Laura from pioneer girl to pioneer wife. I had read many of them while growing up with my sisters (a......more

Goodreads review by Wee on February 02, 2023

Don’t let the colourful, pleasant cover fool you - this is a miserable book. Someone tries to buy her first baby, her second baby dies, their house burns down, and her husband doesn’t keep the promise he makes to her at the beginning of the book. Which somehow I found the most galling thing out of a......more

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