Like most little girls in the 1970′s and 1980′s, I fell in love with Laura Ingalls Wilder. I can’t remember what came first for me, the books, or the television series Little House on the Prairie, but all I know is that I fell for Laura, and I fell for her hard. Just look at me back in my glory, wearing my prairie girl wanna-be braids. I coulda’ been an Ingalls sister, but instead, I was just a little girl from the ghetto.
Somewhere between Laura’s tomboy charm, her tough but joyful life, her poverty and her rich nemesis Nelly, I was hooked. I identified and loved Laura Ingalls as if she were really my best friend, both on the page and on tv. (I also identified with Mary, but that story has already been told on this blog.) Not only was I a fan of the books and tv show, but so was my bipolar mother. There weren’t many things my mother and I could share in our chaotic, dysfunctional lives, but we bonded over Half-Pint Ingalls. I’ve never lost my love for LHOTP, and last summer, I even had a Little House on the Prairie week on this blog, writing about my favorite ghetto LH moments, and even reviewing the memoirs of , Melissa Gilbert, Alison Arngrin, and Melissa (Sue) Anderson.
When I heard that there was a writer out there who went on an adventure back in time to Little House on the Prairie days, I was literally shaking with joy. (Thank you Lydia!) For years, I have been dying to go on my own LHOTP trail, visiting Laura’s world. I’ve been to South Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota, but somehow never managed to see a single historical site. To say that I am jealous of Wendy McClure and the journey she’s been on, recapturing her childhood memories of the little girl we both loved is an understatement. Despite my jealousy, I will tell you that I honestly LOVE what Wendy has done with The Wilder Life. Not only has she went on the trail, visiting everything Laura, but she goes as far to do fun things like hand-grinding wheat to make a loaf of Long Winter bread the way Laura would have, and buying an authentic churn to make her own butter. She even went so far as to pour homemade syrup on fresh snow to make candy like Laura and Mary did.
I read this book over a span of many months, mainly because I could not bear to see it end. I had to stop halfway through and was unable to read it for an entire month, because I was crying like a baby. I cried because I loved Laura like the sister I never had, and I cried because I now love Wendy and what she went through personally while on her quest. I cried because when I eloped a few years ago, we had no room for all of my things, so I gave away all of my LHOTP books to charity. I cried because I felt guilty over this, and then I cried again when I found a complete set of books online and bought them. I cried when I was able to finally place them on my crowded bookshelves, where they belonged. I managed to start reading this book again, and then I cried because I had a hard time trying to recapture my own lost childhood and innocence. I’m crying right now as I write this review, because not only am I sad that life will never be as simple as it was during the 1970′s and 1980′s when I was living in Laura’s world. I also cry because I know in my heart that I am not a good enough writer to be reviewing this book, especially since I am having major writer’s block right now.
The Wilder Life dives into all sorts of Laura-related things, and not just personal reflections and points of view from Wendy. She writes about the big LHOTP debates, such as the group of people who never read the books, (Why haven’t you if you fall into this group?) and how they only know Laura and the gang through the television show, so when they visit the historical sites, they are a bit bewildered. Wendy brings about the important facts about how the timelines in the books don’t match up to historical timelines, making many of us wonder, were these books historical fiction, or semi-autobiographical?
Wendy McClure is the type of memoir writer that you instantly fall in love with–she’s funny, enthusiastic, sincere, and easily relatable. Plus, she’s a damn fine writer, killing me with her words:
“They gave me the uncanny sense that I’d experiences everything she had, that I nearly drowned in the same flooded creek, endured the grasshopper plague of 1875, and lived through the Hard Winter. It’s a classic childhood delusion, I know, and in my typically dippy way I tended to believe that the fantasy was mine alone, that this magically past-life business was between Laura and me and no one else. Surely I was the only one who had this profound mind-meld with her that allowed me to feel her phantom pigtails tugging at my scalp; I had to be the only one who was into the books that much.”
And, “I don’t have a sister, but for a time, while growing up, I had Laura Ingalls.”
If I ever get to meet Wendy McClure (I am dying to meet her and praying to god that she will attend Book-Expo America this May), I will desperately have to restrain myself from giving her a gigantic hug. (I don’t want to come off as creepy, especially since I know I’ll also be crying like a big, fat, 40-year-old baby.) The Wilder Life one of those books you take to bed, read all night, and makes you laugh and cry. When you wake up the next morning, you don’t even mind how exhausted you are, because the book you read was a book well worth reading. Wendy McClure has written a book so instantly beloved by me, she’s made her way into my heart and made herself my new author B.F.F. She has wit, and charm, and most of all, she is unapologetic about wanting to discover EVERYTHING about Laura Ingalls Wilder, no matter how nerdy or weird it might seem to others. This is a woman who not only managed to step into the world of her favorite book, but she also got her man to read the LHOTP books and come along with her on many of her prairie trail adventures. What woman can get her man to do that? (I know I can’t!) Seriously, how could you not help but fall in love with her and the book she’s written?
Visit Indiebound to pre-order your copy of The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure now.
THE WILDER LIFE GIVEAWAY – 1 LUCKY WINNER WILL WIN A COPY
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Contest ends Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at midnight. Good luck to you all!
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I would Love, Love, Love to read this. Last summer I reread the series with my three sisters and when we took a planned road trip for a wedding I worked in a Missouri Ingalls detour, but we have yet to visit the other sites.
I went to her site and found out that she will be launching her book on the 14th here in Chicago!
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Sophie – Good move working in that detour. I’m so jealous! I tried to do that when I went to Mayo Clinic, but since my hubby drove the entire trip and was forced to take 10 days off of work just to sit in a hotel room & hospital lobbies, I couldn’t ask him to do that, too.
I have visited many of the LH sites, and consider myself something of an authority on her. Being from the ‘hood you must be aware that the main branch of the Detroit Public Library has the penciled manuscript of THE LONG WINTER in their rare books room. If you have not seen it, you should go view it. I visited DeSmet on my return from a transcontinental road trip. I’d driven from MI to CA, visited a friend in OR, then crossed ID and the corner of MT to go to Yellowstone, then continued to Mt. Rushmore, then DeSmet. I stayed at the Heritage House Bed and Breakfast there. It was a bank in the time the Ingalls lived there. There is still a Loftus general store. When I stayed there, I was about the second visitor the owner had. I took pictures of the place and sent them to her. She used everyone of them on her website. Go look up that website. It’s pretty cool.
The house they spent the long winter in is in town, and a family has purchased the land where their farm was and reconstructed the house.
I, like you, have been obsessed with Laura Ingalls Wilder most of my life. I think I read the first one of the books when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade and took them out of the Chaney Branch of the DPL. I eventually bought all the books in hard cover. When I was in high school, I wrote a letter to the LIW Home and Museum in Mansfield, MO. The curator of the museum sent the letter back to me, having answered my questions right next to them.
I have seen that jack wagon William Anderson speak at the DPL. As I am a provocateur, I said to him in the question and answer section, “Let me get this straight, you wrote a book about this woman, and act as if you are, in fact part of her family, when you were not even born when she died, and never so much as talked to her daughter.” He said that was true. I could have written a book that was just as complete as he did! I asked about him at the LIW home and museum in the LTOTP. They said he was a huge pain in the ass. I am not anti gay, my father’s brother was gay and my mom was a “fag hag,” but this guy is flaming and the worst stereotype of a gay male.
I have never heard of your blog and don’t know if you will respond to this or not. I found you because I was just watching the thing on ID about the OCCK. I did not remember him being referred to as “the babysitter.” But I was growing up in Wayne County at the time of the killings but driving to school everyday in Oakland County. I am a “Mercy Girl.”
I also went to MSU. I have a degree in French Education. You might be the ghetto girl, but I was the ghetto teacher, I taught at two different schools in the DPS, then taught at a charter school, the Academy of “Stinkster.” Interestingly, when I was in high school I went to Olympia to see Bjorn Borg play an exhibition match. I was almost lynched because I wrote an article about it for the school newspaper and referred to my adventure thusly, “so once again, I threw caution to the winds and ventured into the dangerous ghetto of Detroit, armed only with my camera.” All the “ghetto girls” wanted ma tete on a platter! Do you get a lot of back lash in these PC times about your “name?” You mentioned that you were in a Kid Rock video. Are you a “poser” or did you really grow up IN DETROIT? I am really a ghetto girl. I was born in St, Clair Shores, but my parents divorced when I was three. Then we moved to Ewald Circle near West Grand Blvd. My mother was held up at knife point in the kitchen of our apartment when I was out playing. Then she got remarried and we were involved in “white flight” moving two miles up the road every time the school “turned.” I went to four different elementary schools.
You say you’ve moved 22 times. I think I certainly have moved more than that. I’ve lived in CA in 7 different cities in 5 years; I circled the SF Bay. I lived in two different cities in France in the early ’80s. I lived in 6 different homes in Detroit, then lived in Roger’s City, then back to the Detroit area where I lived in Huntington Wds, Canton, Bellview, Troy and West Bloomfield. I had 6 different addresses when I lived at Michigan State. Three different dorm rooms and roommates in Holden Hall, then a room in Landon (when I was still the Virgin Islands), then two apartments. Currently I make my home in Hayden, CO a small town of less than 2000 about 25 miles west of Steamboat Springs.
I also LOVE the Beatles. I have never been to Liverpool, but have crossed the road in the Abbey Rd. crosswalk and seen the building where they performed their rooftop “farewell” concert. I’ve also seen all the beatles singly, except Lennon, who never really performed much after they broke up. George Harrison was the first concert I ever went to.
I do NOT tweet, because as you can see, I am very long winded. I write like Charles Dickens, the wordiest motherfucker who ever lived. I recently found out why: he got paid by the word!
I am on Facebook (like who isn’t these days). Paula Jankowski Picasso. My email is tinkerhell1216@gmail.com. I would be happy to share some of my LiW pictures with you.
You and I sound eerily alike. I cry at EVERYTHING. I cannot watch the animal planet or any of those commercials from the SPCA. I used to love the song “Arms of an Angel.” Now all I see are sad eyed puppies and kittens when the first note is played. The one way we are vastly different is I am totally a dog person. I had a cat, a Siamese who “came with” my house. He was beautiful, but somewhat on the ferrel side. He wouldn’t stay in the house. He used to live in my shed, hence I called him “Shed Cat.” I also eloped and it took less than 36 hours. But unlike you, I have not stayed married. I haven’t managed to stay married and I’ve taken three swings and misses, so I’ve “benched” myself.
I am soooo late for my ONE day a week gig helping my dog groomer do scut work around her shop. I haven’t taught in 6 years and am so scraping the bottom of the employment barrel, I’ve recently applied for a job at friggin’ Wendy’s.
Wow, thanks for this super long comment.
First, I am not a poser–but I grew up 2 blocks from 8 Mile on the non-Detroit side, which I am sure is covered somewhere like my about me page I wrote so many years ago, and too lazy to go verify, lol.
Your mom got held up by knifepoint? How scary, yikes.
What do you mean by this–I was just watching the thing on ID about the OCCK? What’s ID, a tv show? Did you do a search for the OCCK online and find me, or did this ID mention me? Wow, how weird if the answer is the latter.
I’ve done all the same things you did, but didn’t managed to cross that famous road. We were so tired from all of out side trips to Scotland and Stonehenge something had to give. Darn, I’m jealous.
I have been following HalfPintIngalls on Twitter for some time now, and I’m nerdily excited that she’s a real live person who writes real books and is wicked clever. Also, that their family homestead (while not including the Sandia mountains, alas) is, relatively speaking, just down the road from me.
As a girl, I read and reread and then read some more the entire Little House series, and have given my daughter her own set (which we have read through and hoping she reads through them again to her daughter). If I never get a chance to go on the trail that the Ingalls/Wilders took, at least I can read about it vicariously through someone else.
Janel – I had no idea she was @HalfPintInglass, either, so I know what you mean!!!!
I live near Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, which as you know was the setting of many of the TV shows for Little House. I don’t normally refer to my own posts but you might enjoy the one I wrote about Laura Ingalls Wilder. Next time you are in Minnesota, be sure to visit the area!
bdale56 – Oh, how fun for you! I will have to swing by your blog and read it soon!
I learned she is a children’s book editor.
I am an email subscriber.
I need to win this because I’ve read the whole series multiple times as a child and adult. The last 2 years I’ve had the honor of introducing the series to two classes of first graders. As an end of the year treat, we read the first 2 books together and participated in various activities Laura did.
“Liked “The Wilder Life on Facebook & follow halfpintingalls on twitter, follow you on facebook & twitter, visited her site and what interests me is her book tour called The Wilder Life wagon trail…wish she were coming closer to me.
I would love to share this book in my backyard beauty and book boutique…I was always a fan of Laura Ingalls when I was young…the don’t make TV/books like that anymore. Follow Wendy on Goodreads and added The WIlder Life to my”to read” list.
Carolyn – Each entry has to be put into a separate comment to count as multiple entries! I hope you see this, so that you’ll come back and enter correctly!
I LOVE LHOTP. I read some of the books and watched the show. Someday I would like to read the rest of them and watch all the seasons on DVD. I also enjoy shows like DR QUINN MEDICINE WOMAN.
Anyway, I visited her site and read that her favorite name for a plus-size store is THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN. Hmmm, interesting name.
Like THE WILDER LIFE on FB(Mona Garg)
Sent you a FB friend request(Mona Garg)
Follow Wendy on Twitter(@Kulmona)
I learned she got all dressed up for a review and a giveaway
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Already following your reviews on Goodreads and sent you a friend request(Mona Garg)
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THE WILDER LIFE was already on my to-read shelf
Thanks for telling me about this giveaway on Goodreads! Great review and great website- I’ll be following!
Visited Wendy McClure’s website and discovered that she’s also written and ghostwritten some children’s books- very cool!
I “Liked” the Wilder Life on Facebook!
I would love to win a copy of the book–dying to read it! I went to Wendy’s site and learned that Laura Ingalls Wilder turned 144 on February 7th!
I’m following you on Facebook- my name there is Emily Walters LeBaron
So many reasons why I need to win:
. Love LHOTP
. Enjoy memoirs
. Love to read
. Love entering/winning giveaways
I’m following Wendy on Twitter!
I’m following HalfPintIngalls on Twitter!
I”m following you on Twitter- my name there is Emskyrooney
I”m following your reviews on Goodreads!
I’ve got the Wilder Life in my “to read” list on Goodreads!
I’ve subscribed to your blog in google reader!
Wendy wrote…” my heart wrenches like a twisted towel”,
And that is how I am aching…
To know the tour goes from Chicago to Brooklyn,
and I couldn’t walk to either location.
Laura would find way to go,
And I believe in her spirit, so…
I plan to see the tour for real
I live in-between, but will get there by wheel!
I posted the comment on my Facebook, liked Wilder on Facebook, book is on my Goodreads shelf and I am following both you and Wendy on Facebook. I am just DYING to read this book! I read the review in BUST and just knew I would read it! I have little ones delving in Little House again. The pictures above riveted me back to watching the first episode of Little House on TV with my best friend (we planned all day to watch and have an overnight at her house) when I was in first grade! Facebook name is Leslie Sammon
I love Laura Ingalls Wilder. This is the first full set of books my mom bought me as a little girl. Unfortunately, just like you had to give them away when I moved because there was no room. I hope to get the whole collection again someday.
I went to her site, http:www.wendymcclure.net, and learned that the book has a Facebook page.
Liked The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie on FB!
Sent you a FB friend request. My FB name is Tammy Ford Cuevas.
Subscribed to your blog via email.
Sent you a friend request on Goodreads.
Following Wendy McClure on Goodreads.
Added The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie to my to-read shelf on Goodreads.
Why do I need, need, NEED to win this? Hmmm…..where to start…..as a little girl, I read and re-read the LHOP books until I could have found my way across the prairie on my own. I sooo wanted to be Laura. As an adult, I enjoy reading memoirs and biographies of practically anyone, so this one is a must. And besides, to be honest with you, I read everything. I have books stashed all over my house. There’s a to-read box stashed in my closet right now. Perhaps I need help. Right after I read “The Wilder Life”.
Wow…I knew nothing about Wendy! An editor, author, essayist…loved her fashonista spread too!
Think I need to check out her previous memoir.
Would love to have a chance at this book too.
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I’m not sure if I can keep track here…
1. I follow you on Twitter
2. I have you as a friend on GoodReads
3. I sent you a FB request (from Cara-Mae H.)
4. I added it as a TO READ on my GoodReads shelf
5. I “liked” The Wilder Life on FB
6. I follow your blog (with Blogger I think) AND you also show up in a blogs I read link list (which shows the 25 most recently updated blogs) when you update.
7. I became a fan of Wendy’s on GoodReads
8. I tweeted about the contest and tagged you in the tweet and used bit.ly to link back to this entry on your blog
9. Went to Wendy’s website and I immediately got sucked into her post about the Igigi dresses because I would totally wear that hot Tres Chic dress in the original black & white . Gorgeous!!!
10. I follow Half-Pint Ingalls on Twitter
11. Why do I need this? I originally found your blog because I am a huge LHOTP fan (TV and books). I grew up feeling like I was Laura and that my frenemy Charlotte was Nellie.
It all started in kindergarten when she stole my “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” book and flushed it down the toilet.
When we were 8 – she snapped the head off my Kissing Barbie and I flipped out and ended up getting into one of our many physical altercations and I broke her ankle.
We’re friends of a sort now – have talked on the phone, emailed and are on each other’s FBs and the funny thing is – she’s blonde with blue eyes and I am brown-haired and brown-eyed.
Plus I also identified with Melissa Gilbert because she was the first celebrity I read about who was adopted (just like I was).
Fat Angry Blog – I am lol about Charlotte and the Barbie!
I’m so glad you told me you found me because of LHOTP!
Thanks for telling me about your giveaway via Goodreads. I’m going to her book signing in Kansas City on the 16th.
I noticed that she’s traveleing across the midwest! Hopefully she’ll make her way to the west coast for some book signings.
I need to win because I love the Little House books! I once made my girls and I matching prairie outfits, and 60 bonnets for an elementary school project, lol.
Amanda, I wish you were my mother, or at least I wish I went to your daughter’s school & wore one of your bonnets.
Don’t feel bad, I lived only about an hour from Walnut Grove, MN and never went there. The one thing that got me about the tv show is it wasn’t based on the books except for a little bit, such as Walnut Grove.
I found out she went to weecon.
Thanks for the giveaway! I went to Wendy’s website and discovered that she has two other books besides The Wilder Life, neither one of which has anything to do with Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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I need to win The Wilder Life because I LOVED the Little House books when I was younger! My dad has has some somewhat fond memories of making it through The Long Winter with me – only somewhat fond because, like the title, the book is rather long with all its descriptions of blizzard after blizzard after blizzard.
I also have an e-mail subscription to this blog.
I went to her website and learned she will be in Madison!! Woo hoo! I’m going!
Forgot my email address, kvanhandel@gmail.com
I became a fan of the book (Kris Robarge)
Followed you on facebook (Kris Robarge)
I shared a link on my wall. http://www.facebook.com/#!/krisrobarge
Following you on good reads (Kris Robarge)
Following Wendy on Good Reads (Kris Robarge)
Have the Wilder Life on my book shelf.
I need to win this book because I think it will be a good book and I like reading memoirs. I read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books when I was a kid and watched the show. I’m also from Wisconsin. I love reading and I love winning free stuff, what a great combination!
Sorry my entries are out of order, but I also entered your Far to Go giveaway.
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As soon as I got to Wendy’s page I knew I had found a friend! She loves clothes, and plus size to boot!!!
i learned that The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie comes out on April 14, and if i don’t win this giveaway, you can bet i’ll be standing in THAT line! i loved the little house series, we read it when i home schooled my kids, and i’m even known to pick them up now and re-read them all again!
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I Follow Wendy McClure on Twitter @ntiveheart
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i follow wendy’s alter ego on twitter @ntiveheart
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i follow you on twitter @ntiveheart
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tweeted!
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i subscribe via email
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i entered your ‘far to go’ giveaway
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i NEED to win this giveaway because i am obviously a seriously stressed individual! this is because i have no new reading material. you have all the evidence you need right here on your blog. i comment about giveaways that i entered (i really did, you can check) that ended weeks ago, i comment on the wrong post. i NEED an intervention. i NEED a calgon ‘take me away’ moment. i could probably use a nice glass of wine, but i don’t drink, so a new book would be just the ticket! please pray that whatever gods are in charge at random.org take pity on me!
ON Wendy’s website, I love the picture of Laura and Manly with their dog.
I Like The Wilder Life on Facebook.
I Follow you on Facebook.
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I Follow Wendy McClure on Twitter.
I Follow Wendy McClure’s alter-ego @HalfPintIngalls on Twitter.
I Follow you on Twitter.
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I Follow you on Twitter and tweeted the following RT @NerdGirlBlogger I entered the @riverheadbooks The Wilder Life by @Wendy_Mc book giveaway here http://bit.ly/enz5UR.
I Subscribe to your blog via email
I Follow you on Goodreads.
I Follow Wendy McClure on Goodreads.
I Added The Wilder Life to your to-read shelf on Goodreads.
Of course I’m a huge fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Little House on the Prairie! Yes, I identified with Laura, along with other characters (but never Nellie!) I love to read (We really need more bookcase, but just don’t have the room for any more) I also love winning free stuff. (Winning fun free books is the best!)
Living in Alaska is my own version of living in “the Big Woods”. My sisters and I read these books over and over growing up until they fell apart. I have read them to my three children (two boys and a girl) and now my 11 year old girl and I are reliving Laura’s life together again.
Not only is Alaska too far away to go see the places but I have been bed ridden for the last two years and just had surgery to replace half the vertebrea in my neck so, no traveling for me for a while!
I would love to win a copy of The Wilder Life. I enjoyed the pictures/story on the authors website of how she grew up and paralled that with Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Forgot to add: My Twitter name is MiniPurlz. FB is my real name.
Forgot to add: My Twitter name is MiniPurlz. FB is my real name.
(Link to Twitter RT: http://twitter.com/MiniPurlz/status/54623129154236416)
For some reason, I though Canadians were excluded from this giveaways… We’re not! YAYAYAYA!!!! I love LHOTP!!!! That may sound strange coming from a first generation immigrant with an ethnically Indian background, I’m a nut about it and if offered the opportunity, I would travel across the west in a covered wagon re-enacting Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life. I don’t know how long I would hold out (likely until I saw my first snake), but I would jump on that band-wagon!
Anyways, what I enjoyed about Wendy McClure’s website was how we get to know her through her blog entries… Her funny quips and style of writting are quite humourous. I also learned that she has been published before. Please accept this as my mandatory entry. Thank you!
Aliya D.
aliyadaya(at)shaw(dot)ca
I like The Wilder Life on Facebook under the below name. Thank you!
Aliya D.
aliyadaya(at)shaw(dot)ca
I follow you on Facebook under the below name. Thank you!
Aliya D.
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I Liked The Girl from the Ghetto.
I follow Wendy McClure on Twitter under Rogue_Femme. Thank you!
Aliya D.
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I liked The Wilder Life on FB.
I follow Wendy McClure’s alter-ego on Twitter under Rogue_Femme. Thank you!
Aliya D.
aliyadaya(at)shaw(dot)ca
I follow you on Twitter under Rogue_Femme. Thank you!
Aliya D.
aliyadaya(at)shaw(dot)ca
I visited Wendy’s site – I LOVE the snapshots she’s posted!
I loved reading the books when I was young!
I learned that Wendy wrote her memoir in 2005.
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
I’m an email subscriber
I shared on my FB wall.
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I follow your blog via email under the below address. Thank you!
Aliya D.
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I follow you on Facebook
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I also entered the Far To Go Giveaway. Thank you!
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I subbed to your blog. (cc at craftymommy dot com)
I follow you on Goodreads under the below name. Thank you!
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Following Wendy on Twitter!! (twitter.com/ChristiColvin)
I follow you on Goodreads
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Following you on Twitter!! (twitter.com/ChristiColvin)
Following you on goodreads.
I follow Wendy McClure on Goodreads under the below name. Thank you!
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Following Wendy on Goodreads.
Added The Wilder Life to my to-read list on Goodreads
I added ‘The Wilder Life’ to my to-read shelf on Goodreads. Thank you!
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The Wilder Life is on my shelf at Goodreads.
Why do I want to win? Because I love the Little House books… I love Laura Ingalls Wilder! I still have the original set my parents bought me when I was 9 years old and keep them in my treasure box. Thanks!
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I entered your Far to Go giveaway!!
I NEED to win because I’ve had this book on my list ever since I heard of it. I LOVE Little House and watched it all the time as a kid. I watch it now with my kids, too!!
I’m currently entered in your Catfish Alley giveaway
I blogged!!
http://thisisme.ourfamilyblogs.com/?p=1219
I learned that she has edited over fifty novels and picture books for children!
My blog post. http://thisisme.ourfamilyblogs.com/?p=1219
I blogged about the giveaway!
http://thisisme.ourfamilyblogs.com/?p=1219
I like The Wilder Life on Facebook.
why you need to win this giveaway?
I need to win this giveaway because:
1. I love to read!
2. I enjoy memoires.
3. I enjoy reading about people overcoming obstacles they face in life.
4. I like winning free books and waiting for them in the mail. It feels like Christmas when they arrive.
5. I’ve never won a blog giveaway before. I’d like this to be my first.
From her website, I learned that there’s a Little House on the Prairie museum. Another thing to add to my bucket list! =)
My blog post about the giveaway: http://thisisme.ourfamilyblogs.com/?p=1219
I wrote a blog post: http://thisisme.ourfamilyblogs.com/?p=1219
I follow you on Goodreads.
I follow Wendy McClure on Goodreads.
“The Wilder Life” is on my to-read shelf on Goodreads.
I need to win this giveaway because I’ve been excited for this book for months! I actually found your blog because I was Googling giveaways for “The Wilder Life.” =) I like memoirs, anyway, but I love books that explore our obsession with things (like Jane Austen, etc.). I’ve been rereading the entire Little House series in preparation for reading this book! By the way, thanks for commenting on my Goodreads about your giveaway. I’ve been checking your blog everyday to see if you had listed the giveaway yet, and today I hadn’t checked until I saw your comment.
I follow on Goodreads.
I learned that I’ve read Wendy’s previous book, I’m Not the New Me.
I follow Wendy McClure on Goodreads.
I subscribe to your blog via email.
I posted about the giveaway in this post: http://missvintagegirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/im-nerd.html .
I added it to my to-be-read shelf on Goodreads!
Follow on facebook.
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I need to win because I love ANYTHING related to Laura Ingalls Wilder!!!
I posted about the giveaway in this post: http://missvintagegirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/im-nerd.html .
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I posted about the giveaway in this post: http://missvintagegirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/im-nerd.html .
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Like The Wilder Life on Facebook. (Kitty Cardero)
Follow on Facebook. (Kitty Cardero)
Follow on twitter.
I posted about the giveaway in this post: http://missvintagegirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/im-nerd.html .
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Kristin – You need to fix your link for this entry to count. Please see my comment on your blog post.
Sorry- I changed the link.
Kristin – Thanks!
Follow on Twitter. @kittycardero
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I posted about the giveaway in this post: http://missvintagegirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/im-nerd.html .
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The Wilder Life was already on my to-read shelf on Goodreads
Follow on Goodreads.
Follow Wendy McClure on Goodreads.
I would like to win because I never read LHOTP books as a kid and I felt like I missed out so I have started reading them as an adult. I am obsessed with everything LHOTP now!
At http://www.wendymcclure.net/ I thought it was interesting that being a part of The Christmas Carol would be considered THE highlight of Wendy’s life. I think releasing a book should definitely be one too
Following Wendy on Twitter!
@Anietzerck
Following HalfPintIngalls on Twitter
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Following NerdGirlBlogger on Twitter
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“RT @NerdGirlBlogger I entered the @riverheadbooks The Wilder Life by @Wendy_Mc book giveaway here http://bit.ly/enz5UR”
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Following You on Goodreads
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Following Wendy on Goodreads
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And of course I have the book on my to-read list on Goodreads
That’s how you found me!!
(Thanks for that by the way, love more book connections)
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I’d really like to win this book! Laura Ingalls Wilder books are the first books I really ever read growing up. I have a really ancient, falling-apart, well-read book box set
I’m interested in reading anything tied to those books and her life!
I’ll be reading them again next year with my series challenge for 2012! You can never read the classics too many times
I’m also entering in the Far To Go by Alison Pick giveaway.
FuN to read her disappointment at not being able to look out her bedroom window eyelevel with the snow like Laura
we had a blizzard like that one year in the 60′s! yikes ~
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why i need to win this book? to let Wendy know there really are people who value the extremes she went to to follow her dream & willing to share that with others who care but can’t do what she did… beautiful! and much appreciated that you’re offering this joy & inspiration to us avid readers ! THANK YOU!
I *need this book because, frankly I’ve been going through something of a crisis….. in my career, in my relationship, and in life in general. In times like this I retreat to books like the _Little House_ series because I need to “reground” myself and remember life’s essentials. I am looking forward to reading this book and think it will help me recover my “self” and feel strong about who I am and where I’m going.
I follow @halfpintingalls on twitter.
On Wendy’s blog I was especially drawn to the picture of Jessie (Laura), Manly, and Nero the dog. Like Wendy, I have gotten to low through reading the ‘real’ Laura and ha e enjoyed her as I have the fictional Laura.
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I love Wendy’s personal photos on the site and the stories she tells about them. Always love that about peoples websites. I would love to get my hands on this book. I have been waiting for it and haven’t been able to get it yet
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Jessy
I love reading about personal history and this book fits the bill.
twitter following Wendy “)
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@_eHope
I learned Wendy is a part-time Senior Editor for Albert Whitman & Company
twitter following Wendy’s alter ego too
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i’m @_eHope on twitter
sure hoping my previous comments are being recorded… they’re not showing and no mention of comment moderation _ YIKES!
ok, so you know, i’m following you on twitter! @_eHOPE
I need /want /have to win this because I love the Little House books & show. I have two young boys who I have gotten into starting to watch the reruns. I am hoping to get them into reading the books. My oldest wants to decipher everything so I know that when he reads the books he will want to know more about the life besides what is in the books. So I NEED this so I can answer all my son’s questions about a wonderful girl / woman & family.
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have followed you on goodreads as writer…
The Wilder Life is now on my ‘to read’ shelf at goodreads YES!
i am following Wendy on goodreads as well as ‘friend’ and ‘fan’ !!
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woohoo – thx for the invite
hopefully you’re good for all these comments, tweets and emails – somewhere you’ll find me
i’ve entered the ‘far to go’ giveaway ~ thank you for this xtra entry
also, i have subscribed to your blog by email – email address now avlbl for you for all entries {as well as FHC blog profile}
I learned that Wendy McClure is recently engaged, but sadly, will not be having a LHOTP wedding. Also, that she will be at my local independent bookstore next month!
I’m following Wendy McClure on Twitter
@fnerfette
I have been following @HalfPintIngalls on Twitter – didn’t realize she and the author were one and the same (am I slow??).
@fnerfette
I am following you on Twitter.
@fnerfette
I’m following you on Goodreads.
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I’m following Wendy McClure on goodreads.
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“The Wilder Life” is, of course, on my “to-read” shelf on Goodreads.
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I “like” “The Wilder Life” on Facebook.
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Giveaway message re-tweeted.
I need to win this giveaway because I’ve been reading and re-reading my yellow, paperback, Garth-Williams-illustrated LHOTP books as long as I can remember. I used to re-read all the Christmas chapters from the books every year at Christmas, to get in the holiday spirit. Sometimes I took them with me to school to read for security, when I was feeling shy. I can’t wait to read “The Wilder Life” and see what another crazy fan has done to express her devotion to the books I love!
I just realized she also wrote I’m Not the New Me, which I really liked.
Yay! I already follow Wendy & her alter ego. And now I follow @NerdGirlBlogger, too: http://twitter.com/#!/ray_o_sun
(@ray_o_sun)
From Wendy’s site: “But who needs good hair when you have a BONNET?” I totally need a bonnet…
Her 2005 memoir, I’m Not the New Me, was featured in publications such as Time Magazine, USA Today, Elle, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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I learned that Wendy has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop; impressive credentials!
I’d love to win and read this because I love reading memoirs, I read all of the Little House books when I was little, and I’ll donate it to my classroom library when I’m finished so my students can read it, too!
*Learned from the website that Laura went by “Bessie” most of her adult life!
*Found out that a couple miles from where I live is where Caroline Ingalls lived and where her parents are buried. (and where the book about Concord Hill takes place – stories from when Caroline was a child and then where she meets Charles).
*I have been to the Mansfield, Missouri museum and homes of Laura and Almanzo and loved the tours. Highlights include walking on the very linoleum floor that laura and almanzo walked on (in their bedroom) and then in the museum, seeing the slate the girls used for their schoolwork.
*I just “LIKED” the facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/labeck)
Would love to win the book. I’ve been in love with any story about and by Laura for years and years. When I was seven I wanted a bonnet for my birthday. Thought it was the ultimate in chic
I liked this book on facebook, and have also signed up to follow you on the facebook.
1) I noted on the author’s website that McClure has written a book about the weight loss culture. I feel that such books are important for today’s society to read, and especially important for teenage girls to be aware of.
2) I would love to win this book for a few reasons. First, I grew up reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Indeed, I even did a fifth grade book report on “These Happy Golden Years”. Two, as a high school teacher, on an Aboriginal reservation, I have noted that many of my students like historical novels/memoirs (especially “coming of age” stories). I have spoken a little bit about Wilder before, and I feel that this book might be an excellent compliment to lessons and the classroom library. Anyway, I hope I get picked for this. The book looks great!
@_eHope retweet: http://bit.ly/fRj4BZ
Really looking forward to reading this book–hope I win it!
What I learned at Wendy McClure’s site is that she isn’t visiting Denver on her Events page
Would love to see her at the Tattered Cover or Boulder Bookstore–I’d even drive to C Springs to get a signed copy!
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Now following you on Twitter (@JanetGS), jagreensmith@yahoo.com
Added The Wilder Life to my GoodReads bookshelf as “to read” – I sent you a friend request, and one to Wendy, btw.
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LH books and LIW is one of my lifelong loves–I name Laura as one of five literary characters who helped me become who I am. I strongly identified with Laura, to the extent that I had zero interest in driving when I came of age to get my permit, and thought I wanted to become a teacher until I tried student teaching in college. I learned to quilt, and still do, make butter, and dreamed of a world without telephone poles and electricity. Not so fanatical now, but still a fan of the books. Would love for Ken Burns to do a documentary of Laura’s life and influence on American culture.
Forgot to add my email to previous post – jagreensmith@yahoo.com
I am also a huge LHOTP fan I’d love to review this book on my blog too sometime. barb g. directorylanesuperstore(at)gmail.com
I think it is interesting that Wendy lives near a river.
I liked Wilder Life on Facebook (ann crabs)
Following Wendy on Twitter (anncrabs)
Following you on twitter (anncrabs)
Following halfpintingalls on twitter (anncrabs)
Following you in google reader
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Following you on goodreads (Ann)
Fanned Wendy on Goodreads (ann)
Added The Wilder Life to my to-read shelf on Goodreads.
I’d love to win this. I am an Ingalls fan as well as my girls. I’d love to read this with them.
I learned that Wendy grew up in Chicago, IL.
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I like the Wilder Life on Facebook.
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I follow u on facebook.
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Following Wendy on FB
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Following Wendy on Twitter.
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Following u on twitter.
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RT your tweet for Wendy’s book http://bit.ly/fMXL88 by @_eHOPE
This isn’t her first memoir! taleah AT roknor DOT com
I’ve done the Ingalls trip and made it to most of the places. Even dipped my toe in Plum Creek! I’d love to read this book! taleah AT roknor DOT com
I liked that Wendy wrote a blog and posted a picture of herself in a bonnet she bought on her trip.
I subscribe to your blog by email
Twitter follower @Weepy4Sweeps
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I am a twitter follower @Weepy4Sweeps
I follow Wendy on Twitter.
Twitter follower of her alter ego, @HalfPintIngalls
I want to win this book because like everyone else, I loved LHOTP as a child.
I entered your Yoga Toes giveaway.
I learned that wendy is a columnist for Bust magazine
I learned she has an upcoming event in Chicago. Thanks for the giveaway.
I learned that she grew up in the Chicago area. I remember the heavy snow we got in the Winter of 1979 as she noted as well.
I follow you through Goodreads.
I put it in my to read shelf of Goodreads.
I would love to win for the reason that I was a total Little House on the Prairie reader. I have all the books in hardback and I have read them probably a dozen times each. To this day I still will watch the tv show every now and again. I even went to the set outside of LA one year with my family. It was tiny but it was a thrill to see the house where they filmed the show.
I am now following Wendy McClure on Goodreads.
I entered the CafePress giveaway.
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I checked out Wendy’s site. I found out she has a memoir from 2005.
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Following you on Facebook, name is Bonnie Mca—
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Subscribed via feedburner with wakeupangel at gmail dot com
Following you on Twitter, name is @baniclips
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Entered the giveaway for Far To Go.
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The Little House On The Prairie books were a big part of my childhood and helped in my love for reading. I’d enjoy anything to do with them.
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Learned that she also wrote children’s books. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway
I am an email subscriber. Thanks
I had dreams of writing a book (or dissertation) about Laura Ingalls Wilder many years ago…so I’d love to see how this one turned out!
Am following @NerdGirlBlogger on Twitter (I’m @Rebeccasue17)
Am following @WendyMcClure on Twitter (@rebeccasue17)
Oh, mandatory entry:
I learned that Wendy grew up in Chicago and survived giant snowstorms in the winter of ’79 — though not as bad as The Long Winter.
I liked at the WilderLife on FB – Rebecca Sullivan
Finally, I liked your FB page on FB – Rebecca Sullivan
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3 i posted your giveaway on my blog
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4 i posted your giveaway on my blog
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I like the cute picture with the bonnet.
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I learned she bought a bonnet at the little house on the prairie museum.
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I learned that her 2005 memoir, I’m Not the New Me, was featured in publications such as Time Magazine, USA Today, Elle, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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I follow Wendy McClure on twitter: @lazybones344
Laura Ingalls Wilder is 144 years old today.
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I enjoyed her family pics of their “land” in New Mexico. I bet it seemed like a great idea, a place much warmer than where they were living! Thanks for the chance to win.
I subscribe via RSS feed.
Entered Caleb’s Crossing.
The Wilder Life is on my to-read shelf at Goodreads.
I find myself appreciating memoir type books more as I get older! I loved the Little House books–they were read and re-read.
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I left a comment on the authors page. Thanks
I liked the book on facebook under Lis Pete
I follow you on goodreads under Lisa
I’d love to win a copy of this book! An interesting thing I noticed on the author’s website is I also remember winter’s such as the ones she experienced in Chicago. I grew up in northern Canada and did we ever get a lot of snow! lol! Thanks for considering me!
Margaret
singitm@hotmail.com
Wendy McClure is a Sidney Lumet fan and writes and edits children’s books.
Thank you for this awesome giveaway! I watched The Little House on the Prairie religiously when I was little and read all of the books!
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I “Like” The Wilder Life on Facebook
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I follow you on FB (Amy Meyer)
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I follow Wendy McClure on Twitter (Amestir)
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I follow you on Twitter (Amestir)
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I’d really like to win The Wilder Life because I enjoy reading other people’s accounts of a specific time or event in their life. Little House on the Prairie and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books about her family and her life were a significant part of my childhood. Reading her books was the first time I really understood that real people lived in another time in another place in our country. Other little girls with mothers, fathers & siblings had some of the same feelings and experiences as I did, as well as some different ones, even though they lived many years ago. I became very interested in history as I read about how Laura’s family lived, in the small cabin & Laura & Mary & eventually, Carrie went to school in a one room classroom and the Ingalls family made Christman gifts for each other and sometimes had very little to eat. But they were a happy and very loving family. It was amazing to me & so interesting.
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luving the win for Wendy’s book! @_eHope
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1. I have been reading Wendy’s site for ten years now, and my favourite thing (still) is when she refered to her period as a red tag sale in her uterus (everything must go!)
2. I need to win this book because I bought, read and enjoyed her first book, I read the Little House series over and over as a child, and I’m currently reading it to my son before his peers catch up to his reading level and shame him by calling it “girl books”
Oh, great giveaway!!!!!!!!!
I learned that Wendy McClure once was in a community theater production of A Christmas Carol and got to wear a bonnet. And a long dress. And a crocheted shawl. She says it was pretty much the high point of my life, I think.
I subscribe to your blog via email.
I entered your Arbonne and your Yoga Toes giveaways!
I’d really like to win The Wilder Life because I love travel memoirs and Little House on the Prairie.
I liked looking at her snapshots!
Her very long year in 1979 is one that I also remember. I lived in Ohio at the time and it was a year that I remember wondering how the pioneers dealt with it. In 1976 we were very much reminded about the pioneers, so by ’79 it was in my mind, too.
Tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/computerfan/status/57998277571903488
She tried her damnedest to grow my hair long enough to braid.
I am a huge LHOTP fan and this book would be awesome for all the behind the courton and inbetween puzzle pieces
I learned that Wendy is a part-time senior editor at Albert Whitman & Company, where she has edited over fifty novels and picture books for children and has written (and ghostwritten) a few of her own
Thank you for hosting this giveaway
Louis
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I like your blog on facebook (Louis Here)
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I like The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie on facebook (Louis Here)
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I learned that Laura Ingalls Wilder turned 144 on February 7.
I learned that Wendy is a Children’s book editor.
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I learned that Wendy McClure has several jobs including “an author, a columnist for BUST magazine, and a children’s book editor.”
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I would LOVE to win this book because I grew up watching Little House on the Prairie. I can relate to you wanting to be Laura Ingalls when you were a little girl because I wanted to be her too! I asked my mom all the time to fix my hair like hers. Thanks for the chance to win this awesome book!!
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I would love to win a copy of this book