From Little Houses To Little Women

Author : Nancy McCabe
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826273378
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Little Houses to Little Women written by Nancy McCabe and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A typical travel book takes readers along on a trip with the author, but a great travel book does much more than that, inviting readers along on a mental and spiritual journey as well. This distinction is what separates Nancy McCabe’s From Little Houses to Little Women from the typical and allows it to take its place not only as a great travel book but also as a memoir about the children’s books that have shaped all of our imaginations. McCabe, who grew up in Kansas just a few hours from the Ingalls family’s home in Little House on the Prairie, always felt a deep connection with Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House series. McCabe read Little House on the Prairie during her childhood and visited Wilder sites around the Midwest with her aunt when she was thirteen. But then she didn’t read the series again until she decided to revisit in adulthood the books that had so influenced her childhood. It was this decision that ultimately sparked her desire to visit the places that inspired many of her childhood favorites, taking her on a journey that included stops in the Missouri of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Minnesota of Maud Hart Lovelace, the Massachusetts of Louisa May Alcott, and even the Canada of Lucy Maud Montgomery. From Little Houses to Little Women reveals McCabe’s powerful connection to the characters and authors who inspired many generations of readers. Traveling with McCabe as she rediscovers the books that shaped her and ultimately helped her to forge her own path, readers will enjoy revisiting their own childhood favorites as well.

Author : Carolyn Strom Collins
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060244224
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Little House written by Carolyn Strom Collins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-09-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of biographical and historical anecdotes, recipes, activities, and crafts from the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her nine Little House books.

Author : Anita Clair Fellman
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826266339
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little House, Long Shadow written by Anita Clair Fellman and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2008-05-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond their status as classic children’s stories, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books play a significant role in American culture that most people cannot begin to appreciate. Millions of children have sampled the books in school; played out the roles of Laura and Mary; or visited Wilder homesites with their parents, who may be fans themselves. Yet, as Anita Clair Fellman shows, there is even more to this magical series with its clear emotional appeal: a covert political message that made many readers comfortable with the resurgence of conservatism in the Reagan years and beyond. In Little House, Long Shadow, a leading Wilder scholar offers a fresh interpretation of the Little House books that examines how this beloved body of children’s literature found its way into many facets of our culture and consciousness—even influencing the responsiveness of Americans to particular political views. Because both Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, opposed the New Deal programs being implemented during the period in which they wrote, their books reflect their use of family history as an argument against the state’s protection of individuals from economic uncertainty. Their writing emphasized the isolation of the Ingalls family and the family’s resilience in the face of crises and consistently equated self-sufficiency with family acceptance, security, and warmth. Fellman argues that the popularity of these books—abetted by Lane’s overtly libertarian views—helped lay the groundwork for a negative response to big government and a positive view of political individualism, contributing to the acceptance of contemporary conservatism while perpetuating a mythic West. Beyond tracing the emergence of this influence in the relationship between Wilder and her daughter, Fellman explores the continuing presence of the books—and their message—in modern cultural institutions from classrooms to tourism, newspaper editorials to Internet message boards. Little House, Long Shadow shows how ostensibly apolitical artifacts of popular culture can help explain shifts in political assumptions. It is a pioneering look at the dissemination of books in our culture that expands the discussion of recent political transformations—and suggests that sources other than political rhetoric have contributed to Americans’ renewed appreciation of individualist ideals.

Author : Wendy McClure
Publisher : Riverhead Books
ISBN 13 : 1594485682
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wilder Life written by Wendy McClure and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession will make this a sure favorite.

Author : Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062094882
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little House on the Prairie written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series—now available as an ebook! This digital version features Garth Williams's classic illustrations, which appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for the big skies of the Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their house. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. Just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous conflict. The nine Little House books are inspired by Laura's own childhood and have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories.

Author : Leonora Eyles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman in the Little House written by Leonora Eyles and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louisa M Alcott
Publisher : Om Books International
ISBN 13 : 9382607153
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Women : Om Illustrated Classics written by Louisa M Alcott and published by Om Books International. This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Women is the story of how the four sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth grow up, find love and their place in the world under the loving and watchful eyes of their beloved Marmee. The little women together with their mother keep the home fires burning while their preacher father serves with the Union army during the American Civil War. The family struggles to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbour, Mr. Laurence, and his highspirited grandson Laurie. The book shows how in all times, love and hope are the most faithful companions when all else fails. Honest and true intentions are really the most valuable possessions one can have. The novel emphasises the beauty of simplicity and the importance of small

Author : Ann Romines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing the Little House written by Ann Romines and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their enduring popularity, the "Little House" books, the first of which appeared in 1932, have not been the subject of much sustained critical analysis. The author incorporates her passion for the "Little House" books, which was sparked in childhood, with her grown-up scholarly interest in US women's writing and gendered culture to look closely at the books' voices, characters, and context, and the secrets of their deep appeal. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Miranda A. Green-Barteet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496823095
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder written by Miranda A. Green-Barteet and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Emily Anderson, Elif S. Armbruster, Jenna Brack, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Christiane E. Farnan, Melanie J. Fishbane, Vera R. Foley, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Anna Thompson Hajdik, Keri Holt, Shosuke Kinugawa, Margaret Noodin, Anne K. Phillips, Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Katharine Slater, Lindsay Stephens, and Jericho Williams Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published and unrevised The First Four Years, her letters, her journalism, and her autobiography, Pioneer Girl. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, collaborator and editor Rose Wilder Lane, and other biographical materials. Contributors analyze the current state of Wilder studies, delineating Wilder's place in a canon of increasingly diverse US women writers, and attending in particular to issues of gender, femininity, space and place, truth, and collaboration, among other issues. The collection argues that Wilder's work and her contributions to US children's literature, western literature, and the pioneer experience must be considered in context with problematic racialized representations of peoples of color, specifically Native Americans. While Wilder's fiction accurately represents the experiences of white settlers, it also privileges their experiences and validates, explicitly and implicitly, the erasure of Native American peoples and culture. The volume’s contributors engage critically with Wilder's writings, interrogating them, acknowledging their limitations, and enhancing ongoing conversations about them while placing them in context with other voices, works, and perspectives that can bring into focus larger truths about North American history. Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder examines Wilder's strengths and weaknesses as it discusses her writings with context, awareness, and nuance.

Author : Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0060885394
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little House on the Prairie written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.