Guest post by Chris Lowenstein When Pa explains that Laura’s job in town will not be working as “the hired girl in the hotel” but instead making shirts in Mr. Clancy’s store, he tells the family all about Clancy’s amazing…
Month: April 2011
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 5: Working in Town | Beyond Little House
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Wilder Life Author Wendy McClure Talks to Beyond Little House
The time has come! Wendy McClure’s book, The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie, has officially been released. The book is being mentioned all over the media, including an interview this morning…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 4: The Happy Days
Guest post by Janet Sahni This is a serene and happy chapter with everything falling into place. Everywhere there is a theme of growth: town is growing so Pa is working there as a carpenter, the planted fields and garden…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 3: The Necessary Cat
Guest post by Laura McLemore Sometimes life imitates art, sort of. When my daughter was in Kindergarten many years ago a little girl in her class had beautiful long hair which she wore in braids. One day she came to…
Little Town on the Praire, Ch. 2: Springtime on the Claim
So exactly why is she teaching the calf to drink? Someone needs to let me in on this. It is only now, having actually lived around cows and calves and seen many bucket calves being fed, that it occurs to…
Ask the Experts: UK Editions of the Little House Series
Dear Beyond Little House: I hope you might be able to help. I am looking for a set of the books but with specific cover art. I think the reprint was around 1982/83. This is the set my mum bought me…
Little Town on the Prairie, Ch. 1: Surprise
The first chapter in Little Town on the Prairie. It’s a short one, so short that it can hardly be considered a chapter at all. I can see why Laura wrote it this way though. It doesn’t say much, but…
The Little Town on the Prairie Read-along
You may have noticed that we’ve put up a running list up for the Little Town on the Prairie Read-along. It’s over there on the right. If you’ve volunteered to take a chapter, or if you’ve asked to have one…
It’s So Easy to Laugh — Or Read — In The Springtime
“There’s just this month, and February is a short month, and March will be spring.”-The Long Winter In most places, spring has sprung. Warmer days filled with sunshine, tiny new buds peeking through the earth … and Little Town on the…