<Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> Harper & Brothers </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Published </Th> <Td> 1932 - 1943 </Td> </Tr> <P> Little House on the Prairie is a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder based on her childhood in the northern Midwestern United States during the 1870s and 1880s . Eight were completed by Wilder, and published by Harper & Brothers from 1932 and 1943, of which the last covers her courtship with Almanzo Wilder and one covers his childhood . The first draft of a ninth novel was published posthumously in 1971 and is commonly included in the Little House series . </P> <P> Little House on the Prairie is also the title of the third - published book in the series and it may refer to the American media franchise that includes the fiction series, screen and stage adaptations, related non-fiction books by Ingalls Wilder, perhaps some books by her daughter Rose Wilder Lane (who assisted with the Little House series), several subseries by later writers featuring descendants, and some tourist attractions . </P>

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