On the Banks of Plum Creek
Front dust jacket with Sewell's illustration | |
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle Garth Williams (1953) |
| Language | English |
| Series | Little House |
| Genre | Children's novel Family saga Western |
| Set in | Redwood County, Minnesota, 1874–76 |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers |
Publication date | October 20, 1937 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 239; 338 pp. |
| OCLC | 1291009 |
| 813.52 | |
| LC Class | PZ7.W6461 On |
| Preceded by | Little House on the Prairie |
| Followed by | By the Shores of Silver Lake |
On the Banks of Plum Creek is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1937, the fourth of nine books in her Little House series. It is based on about five years of her childhood when the Ingalls family lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed: "The true story of an American pioneer family by the author of Little House in the Big Woods".
The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1938, as were the next four Little House books through 1944.