After a long and somber Sunday, a little pioneer girl celebrates her fifth birthday in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

Andrew and his family are excited when a photographer comes to take a picture of their dancing bear, but then Bearly can't be found.

Laura and her beloved bulldog, Jack, share some wild adventures as the Wilder family move from Wisconsin to Kansas and later to Minnesota.

Arriving on the American prairie in the hope of making a new home, Nora, a little girl from Russia, struggles with loneliness until Papa brings her a dozen chicks and two geese who follow Nora everywhere she goes.

Laura Ingalls shares adventures and good times with her friends while growing up on the western frontier.

Laura helps out on the family farms in the Big Woods and on the prairie.

John Chapman loved all forms of nature, and he worked throughout his lifetime to improve it by planting apple trees. Known as the folk hero Johnny Appleseed, John helped to build America--not with a hammer and nails, but with a bag of seeds and a handful of dirt.

Rhymed text and illustrations relate the life of John Chapman, whose distribution of apple seeds and trees across the Midwest made him a legend and left a legacy still enjoyed today.

A family travels to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house and meet a friendly neighbor.