Cultural Impact
Vote for Half Pint
Many of you may be familiar with @HalfPintIngalls and her experiences on the “twittergraph” — and if you’re not, you’ll want to be! Half Pint has been nominated for the Shorty Awards in humor and you can support her by adding your nomination. Be sure to fill in your reason or your nomination won’t count!
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Miss Kirkus and Her Discoveries (Laura’s Editors, Part 1)
Kirkus Reviews has been in the news recently, following the December announcement that the book review service would be closing down after 76 years. Unless you work in a library or bookstore you’ve probably never even seen a print copy of Kirkus Reviews, but chances are you’ve read a review from Kirkus on a book
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Contemporary Lessons from The Long Winter
Lizzie Skurnick, author of the recently released Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, used to write a column on Jezebel dissecting the young-adult novels we read as kids–and likely reread as adults. (Her book is based on these columns, and Farmer Boy is the Little House book that’s up for the reread
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A Little House Christmas
This time of year, some folks get caught up in the hustle and bustle and stress of the holiday season, while others keep things much more simple. Still others feel caught in the former group while wishing they were part of the second — and reflecting upon the simple but oh so happy Christmases of
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Laura? Laura Wilder? Laura Ingalls Wilder? Mrs. AJ Wilder?
I’ve been doing a lot of writing about Laura lately. On the one side I’m crafting various drafts of a press release about LauraPalooza. On the other, I’m creating reprint articles as well as working on myriad new articles for the next issue of the Homesteader. And I keep running up against the same issue:
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What’s the Best Age to Read the Little House Books?
What’s the best age for a young reader to start reading the Little House books?
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Being Thankful
When Laura shares her feelings of thankfulness with her Missouri Ruralist readers, she makes note of all the things we sometimes don’t take the time to be thankful for, the everyday things to which we never give a thought. Inasmuch as we often regard her family life, as portrayed in her books, as stoic, we
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Stoicism and Guilt: A Counselor's Perspective
It isn’t often I see a new topic of discussion regarding Little House, but today was one of those rare days.
I have seen some discussion — not much — regarding the stoicism of the Ingalls family. Laura speaks of it in letters to her daughter Rose during the writing of the series, and even says
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Nellie Weighs In On Anne Vs. Laura
I have awful visions of braided girls massing along our border to fling little tin lunch pails and slates at one another! We must nip this bigotry and hatred in the bud!
More here.
Love that Alison Arngrim!
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What Books Do YOU Have?
A discussion on which set (or sets) of Little House books sit on fans’ shelves.
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