Mary’s back at college, and Ma and Laura get started on Laura’s sewing. Remember how awesome it was in Little Town when they made all of Mary’s new things for school? Now it’s Laura’s turn to be outfitted for a…
Author: Wendy McClure
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 21: The Madcap Days
I can’t believe nobody else wanted to do the minstrel show chapter! I am so lucky. As the past several chapter titles will attest, town life has been positively bustling. The sociable! The literaries! The whirl of gaiety! The birthday…
Craft yourself a merry Little House Christmas
From Aunt Eliza’s clove apple in Little House in the Big Woods to the embroidered picture frame Laura stitches in The Long Winter, the Little House books have always made Christmas crafting sound so appealing. But since I’m a lousy…
Whoa Nellie! Reviewing Alison Arngrim’s book at last
With all the LauraPalooza hullaballoo this summer, we’ve been remiss in getting around to the THIRD Little House on the Prairie cast member autobiography to be published recently, following Melissa Gilbert’s Prairie Tale and Melissa Anderson’s The Way I See…
All Atwitter for Laurapalooza
With just a little over a week to go before LauraPalooza 2010 kicks off, we’re getting a few social media matters in order. First, if you’re on Facebook and are coming to the conference, feel free to stop by the…
The Long Winter, Chapter 22: Cold and Dark
By now the blizzards are coming to life in Laura’s dreams as monsters, as she sleeps to the sound of the ice-sand scouring the roof. That scouring noise of the blizzards—a recurring description throughout the book—has always struck me as…
The Long Winter, Chapter 4: October Blizzard
At first you might think that this is just another one of those mornings where Laura wakes up to Pa’s trouble song while her bed’s covered in snow. (Remember that time in By the Shores of Silver Lake?) All right,…
The Long Winter, Chapter 3: The Fall of the Year
As this chapter begins, the weather machinations are clicking along: the hot September days of haying end abruptly with three days of rain, and then, after that, the first frost. “My goodness,” Ma said shivering, while she laid kindling in…
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…
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New Photo Group, and A New Contributor, Too!
Wendy McClure here, your newest contributor at Beyond Little House! I’m a writer from Chicago currently finishing a book about my year revisiting the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder. When I’m not agonizing over my rough draft (I know the…
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