On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder book published 1937 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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On the Banks of Plum Creek is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1937, the fourth of nine books in her Little House series. It is based on a few years of her childhood when the Ingalls family lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed, "The true story of an American pioneer family by the author of Little House in the Big Woods".
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Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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Illustrator | Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle Garth Williams (1953)[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Little House |
Genre | Children's novel Family saga Western |
Set in | Redwood County, Minnesota, 1874–76 |
Publisher | Harper & Brothers |
Publication date | October 20, 1937[2] |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 239;[3] 338 pp.[1] |
OCLC | 1291009 |
813.52 | |
LC Class | PZ7.W6461 On[3] |
Preceded by | Little House on the Prairie |
Followed by | By the Shores of Silver Lake |
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The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1938, as were the next four Little House books through 1944.[4]