Little House in the News
Happy Laura Ingalls Wilder Day!
What? You hadn’t heard?
That’s right, today is officially “Laura Ingalls Wilder Day” in the state of Wisconsin, as proclaimed by its governor, Jim Doyle. The proclamation was presented at 1 pm today by Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton at the Overture Center of the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin, where Little House on the Prairie: The Musical
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More on Little House Politics
An interview you might be interested in reading, with Dr. John J. Fry, professor of history at Trinity Christian College in Chicago, discussing the politics of Laura Ingalls Wilder, was published today. Read it here and feel free to comment below!
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Anne vs. Laura
Last week I got wind of a fight I didn’t want to participate in — mainly because I could never choose a side. The question at stake: Who’s Cooler: Anne of Green Gables… or Laura Ingalls?
Wow. I felt like Aunt Lotty when Mary asked her which she liked better, brown hair or golden. I love
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Judith Thurman on the Wilder Women
Judith Thurman was interviewed on NPR’s Talk of the Nation yesterday about her recent article on the Wilder Women. You can hear it here.
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From Oprah to Guideposts, Little House Has Something for Everyone
More than fifty years after her death, Laura Ingalls Wilder is still changing lives.
Read this heartwarming article in Guideposts magazine about a little girl who came to understand the meaning of family through a visit to the Little House sites.
Then page on over to O, The Oprah Magazine, to read of the influence the Ingalls
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Amy on NPR Talking About Her Book!
She tried to be humble about it, slipping it in at the bottom of her post, but I won’t let her get away with that. Beyond Little House’s own Amy Mattson Lauters was on a Wisconsin NPR station today talking about her book, More Than a Farmer’s Wife: Voices of American Farm Women, 1910-1960. Thanks
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For Those of Us With Boys …
I do have a daughter, but she’s an independent, think-for-yourself kind of girl, and the fact that I have mildly suggested she read On the Banks of Plum Creek (we’ve read the first two together) before we go to Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota this summer has pretty much made her determined to not even
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Prairie Tale: A Memoir
Melissa Gilbert, of Little House on the Prairie television and musical fame, has just announced the publication of her new book, Prairie Tale: A Memoir, which will be released on June 9, 2009.
The autobiography chronicles Melissa’s years on the Little House set, including the personal struggles she faced during those years, and continues on to
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The LA Times On the Appeal of the Little House Books
…For all that they are fiction, and children’s fiction at that, I admit that much of what I truly, deeply understand and love about American history and character comes from my early childhood reading and rereading of these books: frontier politics, American self-reliance, homesteading, the near-religious fervor for fairness and honesty … Everything I learned
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