Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 4740cm the log cabin described in Little House in the Big Woods. She and her family travelled by covered waggon across the Midwest. Later, Laura and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, made their own covered-waggon trip with their daughter, Rose, to Mansfield, Missouri. There, believing in the importance of knowing where you began in order to appreciate how far you’ve come, Laura wrote about her childhood growing up on the American frontier. For millions of readers Laura lives on forever as the little pioneer girl in the beloved Little House books.

Rene Graef received her bachelor’s degree in art from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is the illustrator of numerous titles in the Little House publishing programme, as well as Rodgers and Hammerstein’s My Favourite Things and E.T.A Hoffman’s The Nutcracker, adapted by Janet Schulman. She lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, with her husband and two children.