Another way of thinking about her is as a regionalist, specifically as a resident of and commentator on the Middle West. Wilder has been considered under many guises - as a pioneer girl, as a much beloved children’s author, as a memoirist, as a popularizer of history, as a journalist, as a moralist, and as a women’s advocate.
The books, which have sold between forty and sixty million copies in more than two dozen languages, are admired in equal measure for their emotionally compelling stories, their moral lessons and patriotism, and for the way they sum up an entire period of American history.
It is noteworthy, however, that countless adults have discovered the volumes to be equally entrancing, many of them reading the entire series of eight books over and over again. In writing her much beloved Little House on the Prairie novels set on the late nineteenth century western frontier, Laura Ingalls Wilder aimed her books at young readers - readers who were approximately the same age that her protagonist (a fictionalized version of herself) had been at the time the action took place. Wilder’s books, which have sold between 40 and 60 million copies in more than two dozen languages, sum up an entire period of American history.
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