As soon as I heard about The Wilder Life,I knew it was a must read. And apparently everyone else knew it was a “Melissa book” because nine million people asked me if I knew about it. Well, maybe not nine million people, but a lot. Including some friends I’ve never really considered as “book friends.” [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Laura Ingalls Wilder’
Armchair Traveling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on June 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What would you do?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on April 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There are many random and unusual perks in being a director of education at history museum. The latest? Our annual Girl Scout Day event has a Little House on the Prairie theme. (any guesses as to who decided that?) And you can’t have a book themed event without reading parts of the book! So, I”ll [...]
Maple-sugar-on-snow?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on February 4, 2011 | 9 Comments »
By Northern standards, the weather we’ve had this last week is Not Much. By Dallas standards? Well, life as we know it stopped this week. On Monday night, a giant ice storm hit. And the temperature hasn’t made it past 25 since. Last night, the forecasters said there was a 30% chance of a light [...]
“Wonder, contentment and more than a little hope”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on December 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
On Christmas morning, just after hugs were given and coffee was poured, mom turned to me and said “You’re going to love the editorial page this morning!” This year, the Christmas editorial of the Dallas Morning News featured Little House in the Big Woods! The complete text can be found here. The editorial opens by mentioning [...]
Meeting Laura
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged historic sites, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on May 23, 2010 | 6 Comments »
So, guess where I went today? Today, I went to the source. I walked the same rooms that Laura, Almanzo and Rose walked. Interior photos weren’t permitted, but let me just say this: it’s one of my favorite historic houses ever. It had so many wonderful personal touches, and their lives just oozed through the [...]
Anticipation. . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged historic sites, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer on May 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In less than 48 hours, I’ll be in the same room with Pa’s fiddle, Ma’ china shepherdess, and Laura’s desk. I’ll be in Mansfield, MO, the place where Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote the Little House books. It’s a literary pilgrimage I’ve long wanted to take. A college friend lives less than 2 hours from Mansfield, [...]
Beyond the frontier
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged All-of-a-Kind Family, Betsy-Tacy, Great Brain, John D. Fitzgerald, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House, Maud Hart Lovelace, Sydney Taylor on March 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »
At my museum, we get a lot of school tours. Sometimes, we even get survey responses or comments or samples of the lesson plans teachers use to prep for the field trip. Generally speaking, this makes me very, very happy. And generally speaking, I’m amazed to see how creative teachers are in connecting their textbooks [...]
What’s left out. . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on February 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I know the tagline at the top of my blog says “Everything I need to know about history, I learned through children’s literature.” And I stand by my claim that my reading of certain books (over and over and over again) helped form my love of history. But in reading books like A Little Princess [...]
Isn’t that romantic?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged All-of-a-Knd Family, Anne Shirley, Betsy Ray, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House, Maud Hart Lovelace, Sydney Taylor, The Secret Garden on February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Minnesota Post recently made a list of best Dynamic Duos–in movies, literature, history, etc. And on it, much to the pleasure of the Betsy-Tacy Society and other BT fans is Betsy and Joe as “Literary Romantic Couples”–alongside some couples that are definitely not found in children’s literature. And though I certainly adore the fact [...]
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