Little House on the Prairie Community

Little House on the Prairie fans are in full force throughout the world. This section is dedicated entirely to telling your stories. Here you will find featured interviews, fan-submitted artwork, and personal essays. Read the full index of Community posts here.

Caroline Ingalls – What Laura Left Unsaid

“Seven years ago this month, I was terrified, my finger poised over the send button on an email to Little House Heritage Trust.” Author, Sarah Miller I’d done my homework — read hundreds of feet of microfilm containing thousands of pages of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s handwritten manuscripts, her then-unpublished memoir, Pioneer Girl, and correspondence with…

About Melissa Gilbert

“For me, Little House on the Prairie means “home” in the truest sense of the word.” Melissa Gilbert in My Prairie Cookbook Melissa Gilbert’s Early Years Melissa Ellen Gilbert was born May 8, 1964, in Los Angeles, California and adopted by dancer and actress, Barbara Crane, and her husband, comedian Paul Gilbert. Her parents later…

Laura Ingalls Wilder & Rose Wilder Lane: The Beginning of a Fruitful, Fateful Collaboration

In the history of literature, there’s nothing quite like the relationship between Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, the journalist Rose Wilder Lane. One of the most remarkable things about the Little House books is how the series grew out of their profoundly close and often contentious relationship. From the beginning, the books were the…

About Melissa Sue Anderson

Mary Ingalls: God’s world isn’t fear and hate. It’s love, its understanding. Woman: Amen to that! Mary Ingalls: And learning is part of that understanding. Season 4, Episode 15 “Whisper Country” Early Life and Career Born September 26, 1962, in Berkeley, California to James and Marion Anderson, [1] Melissa moved to southern California with her…

About Blanche Hanalis

“I’m often overwhelmed by the thought that what I have written is reaching an audience of forty or fifty million people in a single night.” Blanche Hanalis in The Television Writer’s Handbook Early Life and Career of Blanche Hanalis Blanche Hanalis was born December 11, 1915, in Ohio, but grew up in the Chicago area….

Laura Ingalls Wilder and Me: A Prairie Girl’s Faith

“As a child, I learned my Bible lessons by heart, in the good old-fashioned way, and once won the prize for repeating correctly . . . verses from the Bible.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder I would never have written A Prairie Girl’s Faith: The Spiritual Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder if Spring Ridge School hadn’t…