We were delighted to welcome our first guest, Judith Kalb, to talk about Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town on the Prairie(1941), the seventh book in the beloved Little House series. Judy is, in addition to being Deborah's sister, a literature scholar and a lifelongLaura Ingalls Wilder fan.
Mentioned on this episode:
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson
Stuart Little and Charlotte's Webby E.B. White
The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81 by Cindy Wilson
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hatedby Alison Arngrim
A post on Little Town on the Prairie on the website American Indians in Children's Literature.
Recommended for Little Housefans:
Judy: The rest of the series, especially These Happy Golden Years
Mary Grace: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, Two are Better Than One and Louly by Carol Ryrie Brink
Deborah: Caddie Woodlawnby Carol Ryrie Brink.
You can find Deborah at deborahkalb.com and Mary Grace at My Life 100 Years Ago.
This episode was edited by Adam Linder of Bespoken Podcasting.
Podcast website at rereadingourchildhood.com
