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Judy Thompson's watercolor painting Silver Lake Reflections. Also featured as cover artwork for the book Pioneer Girl.

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Happy Birthday, Half-Pint!

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Laura Ingalls Wilder, These Happy Golden Years (1943)

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Happy birthday, Laura Ingalls Wilder! Best remembered for her famous book series Little House on the Prairie, Wilder was born on this day in 1867.

This stamp was issued in 1993 as part of the Classic Books pane.

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Laura climbed onto Pa's knee and beat him with her fists. "Where is it? Where is it? Where's my present?" she said, beating him. Pa laughed his big laugh, like great bells ringing, and he said, "Why, I do believe there is something in my blouse pocket." He took out an oddly shaped package, and very, very slowly he opened it. "You first, Mary," he said, "because you are so patient." And he gave Mary a comb for her hair. "And here, flutterbudget! this is for you," he said to Laura. The combs were exactly alike. They were made of black rubber and curved to fit over the top of a little girl's head. And over the top of the comb lay a flat piece of black rubber, with curving slits cut in it, and in the very middle of it a little five-pointed star was cut out. A bright colored ribbon was drawn underneath, and the color showed through. The ribbon in Mary's comb was blue, and the ribbon in Laura's comb was red. Ma smoothed back their hair and slid the combs into it, and there in the golden hair, exactly over the middle of Mary's forehead, was a little blue star. And in Laura's brown hair, over the middle of her forehead, was a little red star. Laura looked at Mary's star, and Mary looked at Laura's, and they laughed with joy. They had never had anything so pretty.

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie (1935)

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Set during the pioneer days of the late 1800s and early 1900s, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books chronicle her life growing up on the Western frontier.

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On February 7th, 1867, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born in Wisconsin. She became famous as an author for her “Little House” series of books, based on her childhood growing up in a pioneer family.

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Despite the endless cooking, sewing and childrearing, Laura Ingalls Wilder's stories of family life in the American wilderness strike a blow for female emancipation, discovers Lucy Ellmann

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1. Favourite Book/Book Series 2/2

Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (1940)

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Laura Ingalls Willder  Feb. 7, 1867 - Feb. 10, 1957

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Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie (1941)