We're excited to announce that the Little Bears on the Prairie collection has been released by our partner The Queen's Treasures. The little bears and their cozy cabin are the perfect gift for your favorite Little House fan. Keep an eye on our Facebook page this month for a chance to win! The prize package includes the newest Little Bears, a Little House Picture Book Treasury, and the Ingalls Family Set from Cūbles.

Have you ever wondered about the creative process behind the beautiful artwork in the Little House Picture Book Treasury? Artist Renée Graef is an award-winning illustrator of over 80 books for children, including many of the My First Little House Books and was also instrumental in the creation of the Little Bears on the Prairie and Ingalls Family Set collections.

As Charles Ingalls knew, potatoes have eyes — not to see with but to grow. Cut a seed potato in pieces with a few of these eyes on each piece and plant them. Thus the “seed potato” isn’t a seed at all, but a tuber, an amazing underground stem that puts out shoots from nodes that spiral around it, shoots that morph into leaves or roots depending on their orientation in the soil. As they mature, the roots develop tubers — the appendages we call potatoes. Check out this article to learn more about sweet potatoes on the prairie.

We're celebrating two cast birthdays this September:

• Prior to joining the Little House on the Prairie cast, Merlin Olsen, born on September 15, 1940, was a defensive tackle who played 15 seasons in the NFL.
• Born on September 26, 1962, actress Melissa Sue Anderson will be celebrating her 60th birthday this year. Melissa was the only actor in the series to be nominated for an Emmy.

In the history of literature, there’s nothing quite like the relationship between Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, the journalist Rose Wilder Lane. One of the most remarkable things about the Little House books is how the series grew out of their close and often contentious relationship. Like her mother, Rose was an accomplished writer. Check out our post on books by Rose Wilder Lane, including Young Pioneers and Free Land — both classic frontier novels about a couple persevering through tragic circumstances.