Some days seem to have recurring themes. Today’s theme: children’s literature! I have one of those page a day calendars on my desk at work. After being out a few days, I was making it current and ran across this quote: “Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Little House’
The dark side of fame, food and t-shirts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, Heidi, Little House on April 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Cold and hot
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Elizabeth Enright, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on February 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
When thinking about extreme weather, the kidlit fan naturally turns to The Long Winter. The story of one of the worst winters ever just doesn’t seem to lose its appeal. I know plenty of people that pick it up and reread whenever they’re snowbound. Chapter titles like “We’ll Weather the Blast,” “Cold and Dark,” and “Not [...]
The best presents. . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Little Princess, Anne of Green Gables, Betsy and Joe, Christmas, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Heaven to Betsy, L. M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Maud Hart Lovelace, Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer on December 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I admit it–my favorite part of Christmas just might be presents. And it’s not so much the receiving (though don’t get me wrong–I do love receiving), but the giving. It’s the joy in finding just the right thing, something that is more than the sum of its parts, and seeing the reaction when it hits its mark. [...]
Pilgrimages
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anne of Green Gables, Betsy-Tacy, historic sites, L. M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Maud Hart Lovelace on October 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This afternoon, while attempting to be domestic, I caught up with one of my favorite NPR programs, This American Life. A few weeks ago, they aired a new episode called “The Book That Changed Your Life.” How could I not listen? The entire show was fantastic, but I was particularly intrigued by Act 4: Little [...]
Judging a book by its cover. . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anne of Green Gables, Betsy-Tacy, Little House on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend, I was very, very excited to find a boxed set of Anne, 1-3. Of course, this may be considered odd by some since I have more than a few copies of Anne. And it’s not like these are first editions. But, could you resist a boxed set that looks like this? There [...]
The Manifesto, so to speak
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Little Princess, All-of-a-Knd Family, Anne of Green Gables, Betsy-Tacy, children's literature, L. M. Montgomery, Little House, Little Women, Maud Hart Lovelace on August 30, 2009 | 14 Comments »
When I was a kid, I spent most of my time in the nineteenth century. It all started with the Little House books. My grandmother read them to me, and they became my very first chapter books that I could read all by myself. From there, it was just a hop, skip and jump to Little [...]
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