Why Laura Ingalls Wilder’s series of historical novels for young readers remains essential.

While the core cast members have been set for some time, the reboot recently added a few more faces to the lineup. The new ...

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 ...

We’re learning this and other Laura Ingalls Wilder revelations now because Wilder has a new book out, 85 years after she wrote it. And good luck finding a copy, by the way.

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.” ...

We started in DeSmet, S.D., Laura’s last childhood home before she became a teacher and married Almanzo Wilder; then visited Walnut Grove, Minn., where she lived from age 7 to 12 by the banks of ...

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 … ...

And their names: Bert, Nan, Flossie, Freddie. Perhaps they were related to Ned Nickerson. Laura Ingalls Wilder, by contrast, was not only inspirational, but her stories also proved aspirational.

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.

"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." ...

Rose Wilder Lane at 19. (Herbert Hoover Presidential Library / Picador) I came to feel that that claim was exaggerated. That Laura Ingalls Wilder really was the author of her books but that Rose ...

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 ...