These Happy Golden Years
Front dust jacket with Sewell's illustration | |
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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| Illustrator | Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle Garth Williams (1953) |
| Series | Little House |
| Genre | Children's novel Family saga Western |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers |
Publication date | March 17, 1943 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 299; 288 pp. |
| OCLC | 2145915 |
| LC Class | PZ7.W6461 Th |
| Preceded by | Little Town on the Prairie |
| Followed by | The First Four Years |
These Happy Golden Years is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1943, the eighth of nine books in her Little House series – although it originally ended it. It is based on her later adolescence near De Smet, South Dakota, featuring her short time as a teacher, beginning at age 15, and her courtship with Almanzo Wilder. It spans the time period from 1882 to 1885, when they marry.
The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1944, as were the previous four Little House books.