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Loosely based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s best-selling children’s books about her own childhood, the long-running TV series ...
How did "Charles Ingalls" die in 'Little House on the Prairie'? "Charles Ingalls" is the head of the family in the popular ...
In “Too Good to Be Altogether Lost,” Pamela Smith Hill makes a cogent and delightful case for, as she puts it, “rediscovering ...
We’re learning this and other Laura Ingalls Wilder revelations now because Wilder has a new book out, 85 years after she wrote it. And good luck finding a copy, by the way.
Should writers who wrote long ago, describing life in the past, be held to 21st century standards of political correctness? The question has arisen many times – most recently about Laura Ingalls ...
We started in DeSmet, S.D., Laura’s last childhood home before she became a teacher and married Almanzo Wilder; then visited Walnut Grove, Minn., where she lived from age 7 to 12 by the banks of ...
And their names: Bert, Nan, Flossie, Freddie. Perhaps they were related to Ned Nickerson. Laura Ingalls Wilder, by contrast, was not only inspirational, but her stories also proved aspirational.
"So Laura Ingalls Wilder is much more candid about the family's financial difficulties and hardships. That comes through very, very clearly in Pioneer Girl." ...
Rose Wilder Lane at 19. (Herbert Hoover Presidential Library / Picador) I came to feel that that claim was exaggerated. That Laura Ingalls Wilder really was the author of her books but that Rose ...
By Laura Ingalls Wilder HarperCollins. 224 pp. $12.99 “Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.” ...
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a significant achievement award in children’s literature presented by a division of the American Library Assn., will be renamed because of the author’s ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder: New book explores her garden and her farm workMcDowell reminds us of Wilder's careful reconstruction of tending the family's vegetable garden in her one novel set in ...