Little House On the Prairie : The First Five Novels (Barnes & Noble Classics, Bonded Leather New / Sealed) 

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Illustrated by Garth Williams. This beautiful gift-quality omnibus collector's edition includes the complete novels: Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, and By the Shores of Silver Lake, the first five novels of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classics series.

Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in the Wisconsin woods in 1867. She wrote the Little House books based on her own experiences growing up on the Western frontier. Just like the characters in her stories, Laura and her family traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest and experienced many of the same adventures. She finally settled down in Mansfield, Missouri with her husband, Almanzo, where she lived until her death in 1957.