
This first book did well when it was first published. The first book of the Little House series, Little House in the Big Woods, was published in 1932. As well as an anime ( Laura, the Prairie Girl) and many spin-off books, there are cookbooks and various other licensed products representative of the books. The Little House books have been adapted for stage or screen more than once, most successfully as the American television series Little House on the Prairie, which ran from 1974 to 1983. It was also published posthumously, in 1962, and includes commentary by her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane.

A tenth book, the non-fiction On the Way Home, is Laura Ingalls Wilder's diary of the years after 1894, when she, her husband and their daughter moved from De Smet, South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, where they settled permanently. The first draft of a ninth novel was published posthumously in 1971 and is commonly included in the series. The second novel, meanwhile, was about her husband's childhood.

The name "Little House" appears in the first and third novels in the series, while the third is identically titled Little House on the Prairie.

Eight of the novels were completed by Wilder, and published by Harper & Brothers in the 1930s and 1940s, during her lifetime. The stories are based on her childhood and adolescence in the American Midwest ( Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Missouri) between 18. The Little House on the Prairie books comprise a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (b.
