Today I got an email from a friend. She knew about my Laura Ingalls Wilder obsession interest and she was holiday shopping for her niece. She asked me what would be a good age for someone to start reading the…
Tag: Cultural Impact
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…
What Books Do YOU Have?
I’m bringing Jeanine’s comment up to the top because I think she asks a great question. I’m wondering what editions other readers of this blog have? I have the yellow paperbacks; I found a blue set (neat to know the…
Laura or Mary? Jo or Meg?
Boston’s Rebecca Steinitz, contributor to Literary Mama, gives us a lovely essay about young readers, literary heroines, Little Women, and Laura.
Trick or Treat
Be on the lookout tonight and you just might spot a little Laura Ingalls running about in your neighborhood. Watch for the braids… the prairie dress… the sunbonnet hanging down the back… and perhaps, just perhaps, they might hold out…
Laura: A Documentary
Those of you who keep up with Dean Butler’s Legacy Documentaries blog are probably as pleased as we are at the recent announcement that the Laura Ingalls Wilder project he has hoped and planned for is officially coming to fruition.…
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My Betsy-Tacy Convert
Betsy-Tacy fans know how to have fun. Little House fans have fun too — but I have to say that Betsy-Tacy fans have us beat, hands down. What is Betsy-Tacy and what does this have to do with Little House?…
Rose Wilder Lane … Who Knew?
Well, we did. But apparently, now that the venerable New Yorker has run an article about Rose and Laura–containing no new information, and just a lot of commentary based on recycled sources–cyberspace is whirling with debate about Rose’s politics, the…
Boys like Laura, too, don’t they?
In a conversation with my sister-cousin, Nicole Kohls, this weekend, talk turned to Little House. Now, Nic is one of the cousins, along with her sister Sara, who regularly played with my sister, Tracy, and I when we were small.…
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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…
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