Little House

Happy Birthday, Laura Ingalls Wilder!

Who didn't want to live in a little log house in the big Wisconsin woods? This is me, dreaming of a being a pioneer girl, in about 4th grade. I had a plan to become president and make the United States go back to the way it was in pioneer days, except I would allow modern medicine. That was the power of Wilder's writing. (I suppose it was the influence of Marlo Thomas and Free to be You and Me that I didn't see any discrepancy in being a girl president.)

Coincidentally, my second grader and I just started reading Little House in the Big Woods together a few days ago.