In “Too Good to Be Altogether Lost,” Pamela Smith Hill makes a cogent and delightful case for, as she puts it, “rediscovering ...

Pamela Smith Hill’s “Too Good to Be Altogether Lost” offers a balanced analysis that will help readers make their peace with ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum in Mansfield, Mo., “where the ‘Little House’ books were written,” is the site of the Wilders’ Rocky Ridge Farm.

Should writers who wrote long ago, describing life in the past, be held to 21st century standards of political correctness? The question has arisen many times – most recently about Laura Ingalls ...

"So Laura Ingalls Wilder is much more candid about the family's financial difficulties and hardships. That comes through very, very clearly in Pioneer Girl." ...

By Laura Ingalls Wilder HarperCollins. 224 pp. $12.99 “Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs. ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder in an image provided by the South Dakota Historical Society. (AFP / Getty Images) She insisted that her “Little House on the Prairie” books were true, ...

DE SMET, S.D. — As a child, obsessed with the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder, I had imagined this scene a thousand times: me in a covered wagon pulled by horses, crossing the windswept Dakota ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder, by contrast, was not only inspirational, but her stories also proved aspirational. My third-grade playmates and I donned long skirts, ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s stories are not a cautionary tale. They are stories of the deep family connections that made America what she was—and can be again.

A fan of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books captures some of the pioneer spirit on a 2,300-mile pilgrimage to little houses on the prairie. I had no real explanation for this. When friends asked where … ...

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a significant achievement award in children’s literature presented by a division of the American Library Assn., will be renamed because of the author’s ...