About the author: William Anderson has spent many years researching and writing about the people and places of the “Little House” books. He has been active in the preservation of the Ingalls-Wilder sites in De Smet and Mansfield. In addition to writing the “Laura Ingalls Wilder Family Series”, he is author of A Little House Sampler, Laura Ingalls Wilder Country, Laura Ingalls Wilder A Biography, and A Little House Reader. He has also written about a variety of topics in such magazines as The Saturday Evening Post, American History Illustrated, The Horn Book, The Christian Science Monitor and other.

Image description: The cover features a green gingham background. There is a black-and-white portrait of a woman on the left side of the cover. The title is printed at the top of the cover, and the subtitle and author’s name are printed tot the right side of the portrait.