Wil Mara (Children's Press, 2003), Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rookie biography, ISBN 0516228552, 31 pp., illustrated, OCLC 50676842 The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum". Hoover.archives.gov. Archived from the original on 2014-10-25 . Retrieved 2015-09-27.

This will be my favorite memory of reading this classic to my youngest child. . . when we got to the part where little Laura is sitting with her sister, Mary, there's this charming illustration of the sisters with their dolls:Laskin, David. The Children's Blizzard. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. pp. 56–57; Potter, Constance "Genealogy Notes: De Smet, Dakota Territory, Little Town in the National Archives", Part 2. Prologue Winter 2003, Vol. 35, No. 4. John E. Miller (U. of Missouri, 2008), Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture, ISBN 0826266592, 280 pp., Google Books S. Ward (NY: PowerKids Press, 2001), Meet Laura Ingalls Wilder, About the author, ISBN 0823957128, 24 pp., illustrated, OCLC 43751877

Anderson, William. Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Iowa Story. Burr Oak, Iowa. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum. 2001. ISBN 0-9610088-9-X

My Little House Christmas Crafts Book (Harper, 1997), multiple writers, illus. Mary Collier and Deborah Maze, 42 pp., OCLC 37808575 Wilder's memoir also paints a different picture of her father, Charles Ingalls, known in the novels as Pa. Although the real man's character is essentially the same as the version in the novels – affectionate, musical and restless to move on through America's frontier – he is, said the book's publisher, the South Dakota Historical Society Press, clearly "romanticised and idealised". In Wilder's autobiography, he is described sneaking his family out of town in the middle of the night after failing to negotiate the rent with the landlord, justifying the flit by calling the man a "rich old skinflint". This first teaching job proves difficult for her. Laura must board with the Brewsters in their two-room claim shanty, sleeping on their sofa. The Brewsters are an unhappy family and Laura is deeply uncomfortable observing the way husband and wife quarrel. In one particularly unsettling incident, she wakes in the night to see Mrs Brewster standing over her husband with a knife. It is a bitterly cold winter, and neither the claim shanty nor the schoolhouse can be heated adequately. The children she is teaching, some of whom are older than she is, test her skills as a teacher. Laura grows more self-assured through her time there, and she successfully completes the two-month assignment, with all five of her pupils sorry to see her go. Narrated by Cherry Jones and accompanied on the fiddle by Paul Woodielv. Paul gave life to Pa's songs and Cherry truly made this audiobook a masterpiece. Loved every word of it.

Yona Zeldis McDonough (NY: Henry Holt, 2014), Little Author in the Big Woods: A Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, ISBN 080509542X, 156 pp., illus. Jennifer Thermes, OCLC 881064381 Anderson, William. Laura’s Album: a remembrance scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. 1998. ISBN 0-06-027842-0.

With the aid of his old friend Mr. Edwards, Pa successfully files his claim. As the spring flowers bloom and the prairie comes alive with new settlers, the Ingalls family moves to its new piece of land and begins building what will become their permanent home. But the "spring rush" comes early. The large mobilization of pioneers to the Dakotas in early March prompts Pa to leave immediately on the few days' trip to the claims office. The girls are left alone to spend their days and nights boarding and feeding all the pioneers passing through. They charge 25 cents for dinner and boarding and start a savings account toward sending Mary to the School for the Blind in Vinton, Iowa. [36]