![]() ![]() Seventy-five years after she published her last Little House novel, Laura Ingalls Wilder is an international icon. Rowling, Wilder created characters who sprang from the page directly into everyday life and from there into our collective consciousness. Wilder has become part of our popular culture as few children’s book authors have. References to Wilder and her work appear regularly in unexpected places-from Rose Under Fire to to the Big Bang Theory. It was set in England during World War II, an ocean away from Laura Ingalls and life in the American West.īecause there on page five was this sentence: “I can’t believe they gave me that diploma in December, like Laura Ingalls Wilder leaving school at fifteen so she could be a teacher!”1Įven when I tried, I couldn’t escape her.įew of us can. Then I reached for a new young adult novel by Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire. I cleared my desk shelved my Wilder books and boxed my Pioneer Girl files away in the attic. After four years of work on Pioneer Girl in 2014, I was ready to take a break from All Things Wilder. ![]()
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