Nora here. We're fairly certain that this set of books really needs no introduction as they seem to have been required reading for any history-loving female between the ages of 8 and 12 for at least 5 decades, and closer to 8. However, it still took us quite some time to convince the human to make us a set for ourselves.
There's many editions, but we decided to go with the 1950s reprints with the Garth Williams illustrations as opposed to the original 1930s books. The one book that is missing is 'The First Four Years', which is more of an add-on than part of the core series written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (and ghost-written by Rose Wilder Lane). Perhaps our next book should be a doll edition of 'Pioneer Girl'.
Alas, the human couldn't find the full dust jacket illustrations, so we're stuck with simple hardcovers.
But the books all have the correct illustrations next to the correct text. The human found the illustrations by searching auction sites, and then finding the right ones. There was a stack of human-sized Little House books that she was comparing ours to while she was making them.
And the bonus book this week:
Just wanted to say thank you for doing this! I loved this series growing up.
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