The wilder life : my adventures in the lost world of Little House on the Prairie / Wendy McClure.
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TextPublication details: Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2011.Edition: Center Point large print edDescription: 430 p. (large print) ; 23 cmISBN: - 1611731801 (lg. print : library binding : alk. paper)
- 9781611731804 (lg. print : library binding : alk. paper)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Large Print NonFiction | 813.52 M128 | Available | 33111006658484 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder - a fantastic realm of fiction, history, and places she's never been to, yet somehow knows by heart. She retraces the pioneer journey of the Ingalls family, looking for the Big Woods, wading in Plum Creek, and enduring a prairie hailstorm in South Dakota. She immerses herself in all things Little House, and explores the story from fact to fiction. The Wilder Life is a loving, irreverent, spirited tribute to a series of books that have inspired generations. It is also an incredibly funny first-person account of obsessive reading, and a story about what happens when we reconnect with our childhood touchstones - and find that our old love has only deepened.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-430).
Our past life -- Whose woods these are -- Going to town -- Good girls and golden curls -- There is a happy land far, far away -- The way home -- There won't be horses -- Fragments of a dream -- Anywhere East or South -- The road back -- Be it enacted -- Unremembered.
Irreverently retraces the pioneer journeys of the Ingalls family as depicted in the famous Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, identifying its fictional and factual aspects while visiting the historical sites where young Laura grew up.