The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
by:
Wendy McClure (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781594487804 (1594487804)
Publish date: April 14th 2011
Publisher: Riverhead
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Book Club,
Books About Books,
Adult,
Biography Memoir
An interesting read for anyone who loved the Little House books growing up, and desperately wanted to be Laura.
McClure, a lover of the Little House on the Prairie books, starts to research Laura Ingalls Wilder's life. It's a ramble through McClure's psyche, really, with far more information about the author than about Laura herself. But I think she did get at some of the things that make the Little House b...
I loved the Little House books as a child and as soon as I saw the illustrations on the cover of this book, I knew I had to read it. Those illustrations have stuck with me for years. I never quite realized how much of Little House in the Big Woods nestled itself into my brain until I began reading t...
While I've never had the compulsion to recreate the world of the Little House books I was a pretty big fan of the series so, for the most part, I enjoyed this audio. The parts where the author traveled to the various Little House sites were my favorites and I also enjoyed learning more about Rose W...
"And then, for a while afterward, one question kept nagging at me: what would LIW think of all this -- the home-steading movement, Sam and Heidi Ackerson, the Wisconsin church group and their preparedness retreats? Like Rose, Laura disliked FDR and the public-works programs of the New Deal. They bot...
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