The Long Winter (Little House-the Laura Years) - Softcover

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060522410 ISBN 13: 9780060522414

Publisher: Avon Books, 2003

Synopsis

Struggle for survival

The old Indian in Harthorn's store warned that the coming winter would have seven months of blizzards. The first one strikes in October, and the town of De Smet is soon snowed under. Laura and her family move to town to weather out the winter, but once the trains stop running, the food supply dwindles. When Almanzo Wilder volunteers to go search for wheat, the townspeople anxiously hope that he will succeed.

About this title

Review:

"Perhaps the most impressive of these vivid and memorable narratives." Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

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.

Garth Williams's classic illustrations for the Little House books caused Laura to remark that she "and her folks live again in these pictures." Garth Williams also illustrated Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and almost one hundred other books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060522410
• ISBN 13: 9780060522414
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352