Laura Ingalls Wilder is the winner of the 1954 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) was born in a log cabin in the
Wisconsin woods. With her family, she pioneered throughout
America's heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in
Dakota Territory. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885; their only
daughter, Rose, was born the following year. The Wilders moved to
Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they
established a permanent home. After years of farming, Laura wrote
the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The nine
Little House books are international classics. Her writings live on
into the twenty-first century as America's quintessential pioneer
story.
Garth Williams is the renowned illustrator of almost one hundred
books for children, including the beloved Stuart Little by E. B.
White, Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban, and the Little House
series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
He was born in 1912 in New York City but raised in England. He
founded an art school near London and served with the British Red
Cross Civilian Defense during World War II. Williams worked as a
portrait sculptor, art director, and magazine artist before doing
his first book Stuart Little, thus beginning a long and lustrous
career illustrating some of the best known children's books.
In addition to illustrating works by White and Wilder, he also
illustrated George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square and its
sequels (Farrar Straus Giroux). He created the character and
pictures for the first book in the Frances series by Russell Hoban
(HarperCollins) and the first books in the Miss Bianca series by
Margery Sharp (Little, Brown). He collaborated with Margaret Wise
Brown on her Little Golden Books titles Home for a Bunny and Little
Fur Family, among others, and with Jack Prelutsky on two poetry
collections published by Greenwillow: Ride a Purple Pelican and
Beneath a Blue Umbrella. He also wrote and illustrated seven books
on his own, including Baby Farm Animals (Little Golden Books) and
The Rabbits' Wedding (HarperCollins).
"The vast number of devotees of the earlier books will rejoice in [this] important sequel to "These Happy Golden Years.""-- "Horn Book"
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