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The Little House Cookbook: New Full-Color Edition

Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories

Barbara M Walker author Garth Williams illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Published:1st Nov '18

Should be back in stock very soon

The Little House Cookbook: New Full-Color Edition cover

A gorgeous new hardcover edition of the award-winning cookbook, featuring full-color photographs, classic illustrations, and more than 100 of the recipes that Laura Ingalls Wilder chronicled in her classic Little House books.

A great gift for Little House fans and anyone who wants to learn what life on the prairie was really like. 

With this visually stunning cookbook, you can learn how to make classic frontier dishes like corn dodgers, mincemeat pie, cracklings, and pulled molasses candy in your own modern kitchen.

The book also includes excerpts from the beloved Little House series, fascinating and thoroughly researched historical context, and details about the cooking methods that pioneers like Ma Ingalls used, as well as illustrations by beloved artist Garth Williams and full-color photographs by Kathryn Elsesser. Food and prop styling by Ellen Jackson.

This is a chance to dive into the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder, American pioneer, women's club member, and farm homesteader.

This book has been widely praised and is the winner of the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The Horn Book praised it as "a culinary and literary feast."

“More than a cookbook, this social history is an extension of the Wilder books done with the same spirit of care and love.” — School Library Journal (starred review) “A culinary and literary feast.” — The Horn Book

  • Winner of Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) (United States).
  • Winner of Library of Congress Children’s Books (United States).
  • Winner of School Library Journal Best Book (United States).
  • Winner of ALA Notable Children’s Book (United States).

ISBN: 9780062470799

Dimensions: 229mm x 178mm x 25mm

Weight: 1039g

304 pages