1. Laura Ingalls Wilder By: Megan Vaughn

2. Early Life Born: Feb. 7, 1867 near Pepin, WI (The Little House in the Big Woods) Parents: Charles and Caroline Ingalls Siblings: Mary, Carrie, Grace, Charles (died at 9 months old) Two years later moved to Kansas (Little House on the Prairie) 1874 moved to Walnut Grove (Setting for TV Show) Two years later moved to Burr Oak, Iowa 1878 moved back to Walnut grove 1879 moved to De Smet, SD.

3. Early Career Became a teacher, because her family needed money Mary was away at a school for the blind. 1882: passed teaching certificate test At age 15, she taught at a one room school house 12 miles from her parents home. Each weekend Almonzo Wilder picked her up and took her home to visit her parents.

4. Family Life Laura married Almonzo Wilder on August 25, 1885. She then quit teaching to raise her family and work the farm with Almonzo. 1886: Rose Wilder was born. 1889: had a son who died within a month of being born. Shortly after, Almonzo contracted diphtheria, left him partially paralyzed. 1890: Wilder house burnt down. Moved around until 1894. Bought a farm in the Ozarks of Mansfield, Missouri called Rocky Ridge farm.

5. Little House Books

6. Other Books Pioneer Girl – Autobiography On the Way Home West from Home The Back Road A Little House Sampler Writings to Young Women A Little House Reader Laura Ingalls Wilder & Rose Wilder Lane Little House in the Ozarks Laura’s Album The Small Farm The War Years The Farm Home A Farm Woman Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Most Inspiring Writings Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Pioneer Girl’s World View

7. Quotes: “Home is the nicest word there is.” “It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” “Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to smell.” “Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.” “Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.” “Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.”

8. Websites http://www.lauraingallswilderhome.com/ http://www.biography.com/people/laura-ingalls-wilder-9531246 http://www.discoverlaura.org/ http://lauraingallspepin.com/ http://www.littlehousebooks.com/