Little House on the Prairie vs These Happy Golden Years: Which Should You Read?

Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1935 ★★★★☆ 4.2 354 pages · ≈ 6 h 33 m · Moderate

“A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.”

When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find…

These Happy Golden Years Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1943 ★★★★☆ 4.2 304 pages · ≈ 5 h 38 m · Moderate

The Ingalls family homesteads on their claim in DeSmet, South Dakota. Fifteen-year-old Laura begins to take schoolteaching jobs to raise money for Mary's college. Laura is surprised when Almanzo Wilder begins to seek…