"Little House on the Prairie" is the second book of the famous autobiographical epic by American writer Laura Ingles Wilder. Laura and her sisters, along with their parents, leave the forests of Wisconsin and begin to settle in Kansas, on the land of wild Indian tribes. The Wilders have to survive a dangerous crossing of a stormy river, a prairie fire and a terrible fever that almost killed the whole family. And over time, the neighborhood with Indians becomes more and more dangerous: they can suddenly enter the house in the absence of dad, scare mom and the girls and take all the food and animal skins that dad got while hunting. But Dad, as in the first book, is still the main man in the family, a jack-of-all-trades (building a house, digging a well, and playing the violin), dearly loving his daughters and faithful wife. He is rebuilding the family's life from scratch. And Dad is also very brave: he comes out victorious in a fight with a cougar. Mom endures all the hardships of life with amazing patience and calmness, whether it's a long journey in a van or an unsettled life in a new place. On the way, she heats an iron over a campfire and irons her daughters' dresses on the van seat, and in the newly built house her dad puts a porcelain shepherdess on the mantelpiece — a symbol of family well-being and comfort. Thanks to the writer's amazing artistic memory, her attention to people and things, the book is easy to read, with lively interest, and a 10-12-year-old reader has a natural desire to compare his own childhood with Laura's.