Laura Elizabeth Ingalls. The stories are based on her childhood and adulthood in the American Midwest Wisconsin , Kansas , Minnesota , South Dakota , and Missouri between The name "Little House" appears in the first and third novels in the series, while the third is identically titled Little House on the Prairie. The second novel, meanwhile, was about her husband's childhood. The first draft of a ninth novel was published posthumously in and is commonly included in the series.
It was also published posthumously, in , and includes commentary by her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. The Little House books have been adapted for stage or screen more than once, most successfully as the American television series Little House on the Prairie , which ran from to Rose Wilder Lane had a heavy hand in the editing of the books, though Laura Ingalls Wilder's voice is still strong.
Lane also had a hand in giving the rights to Roger Lea MacBride , who then led to the creation of the television show entitled Little House on the Prairie. In a survey published by School Library Journal , a monthly with primarily U. The Little House books include depictions of ethnic minorities, including a heroic black doctor who saves the protagonist's family. Certain criticisms of the Little House books, however, have noted its portrayals of Native Americans. An incident related to Wilder's depiction of Native Americans occurred in , when an eight-year-old girl was read Little House on the Prairie in her elementary school class.
In the book, a minor character says, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian. He figured that Indians would be as peaceable as anybody else if they were let alone. Laura Ingalls Wilder's work is autobiographical fiction and Wilder employed artistic licence , including creating composite characters based on multiple real individuals [ 14 ] and presenting a subjective view of her family's experiences.
According to the New York Times Rose was an "outspoken antigovernment polemicist and is called one of the grandmothers of the libertarian movement. Anti-governmental political views, such as those held by Rose Wilder Lane, have been attributed to the Little House books. In her article, " Little House on the Prairie and the Truth About the American West", historian Patricia Nelson Limerick connects Wilder's apparent and Lane's outright distaste for the government as a way to blame the government for their father's failure at homesteading.
