Posted on 01/13/2015 4:48:15 AM PST by TurboZamboni
Laura Ingalls Wilder is legendary. Her "Little House on the Prairie" series, based on her family's adventures on the Midwestern frontier, have sold more than 41 million copies in the U.S. and have been translated into more than 40 languages.
The books spawned a long-running television show and, in 2008, a stage musical.
Millions of readers have been captivated by Wilder's childhood on the prairie, but her newest book, "Pioneer Girl," released more than 50 years after her death, offers a new perspective.
Annotated with exceptional detail by Pamela Smith Hill, "Pioneer Girl" is Wilder's autobiography, unpublished until now. Hill's extensive research, and Wilder's own words, unveil new details about her life beyond the prairie.
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Well, it’s a series of books that begins with the story of orphan Anne’s arrival at the farm on Prince Edward Island. That is also what the two movies cover. There’s a third movie which is about an older Anne but it’s doo doo and not from the books. As the books continue, they become more of a “woman’s” story dealing with her life as a wife and mother. The stories of her children take over and the last book tells of her youngest daughter as a late teen.
It’s been awhile since I read them but I finished the last book in a Denny’s and was sobbing so much, the server asked me if I was okay! I was waiting for uHaul to put a hitch on and cried all the way back to the shop! The guys there thought I was nuts....
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