The Wilder life : my adventures in the lost world of Little house on the prairie / Wendy McClure.
In this funny and thoughtful guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west, children's book editor and memoirist McClure (I'm Not the New Me) attempts to recapture her childhood vision of "Laura World" (i.e., the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family).
Record details
- ISBN: 9781594485688
- Physical Description: 336 pages : illustrations, ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Riverhead edition
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-336).
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.3 17 147148.
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Summary:
In this funny and thoughtful guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west, children's book editor and memoirist McClure (I'm Not the New Me) attempts to recapture her childhood vision of "Laura World" (i.e., the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family).
