Generations have grown up with Laura Ingalls Wilder and her adventures on the American prairie of the 1870s and 80s. This collection contains the seven novels (five of them Newbery Honor Books) that follow the Ingalls family from Little House in the Big Woods, when Laura is 5, through These Happy Golden Years and her courtship with Almanzo Wilder in South Dakota. The early books are for readers 7 and up and younger listeners, while the later novels gain maturity as Laura does, and are better suited to readers 12 and up; they all feature new covers, with Garth Williams's classic drawings inside.