Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Little House series is best read in chronological order of the events depicted, starting with "Little House in the Big Woods," followed by "Farmer Boy," "Little House on the Prairie," "On the Banks of Plum Creek," "By the Shores of Silver Lake," "The Long Winter," "Little Town on the Prairie," "These Happy Golden Years," and finally "The First Four Years."

The Little House series was famously adapted into a long-running television series titled "Little House on the Prairie," which aired from 1974 to 1983. There have also been various film and stage adaptations of her works.

Laura Ingalls Wilder is the namesake of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, now known as the Children's Literature Legacy Award, which she herself was the first recipient of in 1954 for her substantial and lasting contribution to children's literature.

Yes. In 1954 the American Library Association's children's division presented her with a special award for her lasting contribution to children's literature, the first recipient of what became the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. The ALA renamed it the Children's Literature Legacy Award in 2018, and past recipients, including Wilder, kept the honor.