On the Banks of Plum Creek
By: by Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams.
Contributors: Garth Williams (Illustrator)
Edition: Newly illustrated, uniform edition
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: October 1953
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780060264710
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Family -- Fiction; Wilder, Laura Ingalls, -- 1867-1957 -- Fiction.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction
First sentence: The dim wagon track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses.
Description: The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles.
Notes: A Newbery Honor Book, 1938.
Description from book cover.