The actors on the 70’s television show Little House on the Prairie must have been inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder, who fictionalized her own memories, because a lot of them wrote their own memoirs. Here’s the rundown….
Did you ever wonder how much of the Little House books were real, and how Laura Ingalls Wilder managed to put her life story into such wonderful children’s books?
December, 2020: The media has finally caught on to the love we have for the Little House series and has announced that a reboot of the T.V. show is being planned. I’m excited by the news that this go round seems slated to be more authentic than the T.V. show I grew up with. Here …
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Why I Read Prairie Fires This summer my adult daughter decided to finally read the Little House books. I read Little House in the Big Woods with her when she was little, but then for some reason, she never read the rest. She found that the T.V. series is on IMBD, so we also starting …
In Part 2 of our series on FREE Newbery Award winners, this week we bring you books set in the Western part of the United States. Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James Newbery Medal, 1927 Smoky the Cowhorse is set in the 1910’s, just long enough before the novel was written to document the shift …
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