A very happy birthday to our favorite author! During Laura’s lifetime, she received thousands of birthday wishes from children and fans across the country, and beyond. Feel free to leave your own birthday wishes here, or tell us if you did something special to celebrate Laura’ s birthday!
Also in honor of Laura’s birthday, BLH’s Sandra Hume has a guest post up at Heroine Love Week for The Heroine’s Bookshelf, author (and LauraPalooza 2010 Spelling Bee champion) Erin Blakemore’s book about the literary heroines we all love in classic books like To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, and, of course, the Little House series. Sandra does enough talking about Laura here at Beyond Little House, so today she’s talking about another literary heroine of hers, Margaret Simon from Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. (When you click over to the post, you can enter to win the Homesteader as well as three fabulous heroine-based Harper Collins books.)
And don’t forget to tune in tonight to Sarah’s BlogTalkRadio show — a live on-the-air celebration of Laura’s birthday that you can all participate in. 9:30 pm Eastern, 8:30 Central, 7:30 Mountain, 6:30 Pacific. See you all there!