Laura Ingalls Wilder: Hero of the Revolution

http://www.enp-news.org/ My home state is wonderfully messed up.

Ten random things: November 16

... Prelutsky The Kingfisher Book of Classic Christmas Stories , Ian Whybrow, ed. A Little House Christmas: Holiday Stories from the Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder The first day of Advent is a mere 13 days away, which means it's almost time for my annual Advent project. This year...

Mood swings?!

... moodniness on hormones is a total cop-out -- but I think this is not quite normal. So maybe there *is* something to it after all. I was reading a Laura Ingalls Wilder book today and I cried, I actually cried when her dog died. What the? I didn't cry over that dog the other 50 times I've read that book ...

Dear Ghost of Eleanor Robinson

... by the book, in fact, that she sent me a copy, which I read in two days.    Some of Ms. Nordstrom’s letters start with Dear Laura Ingalls Wilder, or Dear Maurice Sendak, Dear Ruth Krauss, Mary Stolz,  Margaret Wise Brown, and even Dear EB White. It was fascinating to read the correspondence between these distinguished ...

Cookie Monster

... weeks. It was one of those delicious tubes that is meant to be consumed prior to baking? I got out the sugar cookie dough and the cookie cutters: Laura Ingalls Wilder, an oak leaf, a maple leaf, and a heart. Cookies were pressed, cookies were set, cookies were stuck in the oven. Cookies came out in one big ...

Debut Library Entry: Brighton Memorial Library

We are absolutely honored to have Laura Ingalls Wilder send in this entry for Brighton Memorial Library in Rochester, New York! We actually have it on good authority that that's YA Librarian Deena Lipomi reading J.E. MacLeod's WAITING TO SCORE, but we'll just play along! She's also flanked by Cyn Balog's FAIRY TALE- we bet next year, she'll enjoy ...

...Gillian Space Demons 2 Allmenarebastards.com Rushby, Allison A Silent Love Ryan, Adrienne Laura's Luck Sachs, Marilyn Baby Names for the New Century Samuelson, Pamela Animal...in the Stone White, H Yoga, Mind and Body Whitelaw, Ian (ed) Little House on the Prairie Wilder, Laura Ingalls Horse of the Year Williams, Dorian Ancient Fire Williams, Mark London Danger Boy 1 Dragon Sword Williams, ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder in zombie country

... dreadful voice, “They are coming.” Laura put down her needle and ...following eagerly at his heels. Laura bolted the door behind them...shuffled toward the house, toward Laura and the barn and Almanzo...the walls of the house Laura could hear Almanzo, calling encouragement...help it. ‘All right, come,’ Laura thought grimly. She propped the...not cross the slough.” “Yes,” Laura said. “Are you hurt, Manly...

Laura Ingalls Wilder in zombie country

... dreadful voice, “They are coming.” Laura put down her needle and ...following eagerly at his heels. Laura bolted the door behind them...shuffled toward the house, toward Laura and the barn and Almanzo...the walls of the house Laura could hear Almanzo, calling encouragement...help it. ‘All right, come,’ Laura thought grimly. She propped the...not cross the slough.” “Yes,” Laura said. “Are you hurt, Manly...

Memage

...I'd read anything I got my hands on. I loved L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series - read them all straight through several times. Same with Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. I must have read A Little Princess a dozen times. But what I really remember was going to the library, and because we had ...