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In “Too Good to Be Altogether Lost,” Pamela Smith Hill makes a cogent and delightful case for, as she puts it, “rediscovering ...
Should writers who wrote long ago, describing life in the past, be held to 21st century standards of political correctness? The question has arisen many times – most recently about Laura Ingalls ...
We’re learning this and other Laura Ingalls Wilder revelations now because Wilder has a new book out, 85 years after she wrote it. And good luck finding a copy, by the way.
Melissa Gilbert explained in a new interview that into her 40s, people still expected her to be like her young 'Little House on the Prairie' character, Laura Ingalls Wilder.
By Laura Ingalls Wilder HarperCollins. 224 pp. $12.99 “Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.” ...
We started in DeSmet, S.D., Laura’s last childhood home before she became a teacher and married Almanzo Wilder; then visited Walnut Grove, Minn., where she lived from age 7 to 12 by the banks of ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s stories are not a cautionary tale. They are stories of the deep family connections that made America what she was—and can be again.
"So Laura Ingalls Wilder is much more candid about the family's financial difficulties and hardships. That comes through very, very clearly in Pioneer Girl." ...
And their names: Bert, Nan, Flossie, Freddie. Perhaps they were related to Ned Nickerson. Laura Ingalls Wilder, by contrast, was not only inspirational, but her stories also proved aspirational.
Rose Wilder Lane at 19. (Herbert Hoover Presidential Library / Picador) I came to feel that that claim was exaggerated. That Laura Ingalls Wilder really was the author of her books but that Rose ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder: New book explores her garden and her farm workMcDowell reminds us of Wilder's careful reconstruction of tending the family's vegetable garden in her one novel set in ...
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a significant achievement award in children’s literature presented by a division of the American Library Assn., will be renamed because of the author’s ...