I’m passing on some important information from April Halprin Wayland, author of one of my family’s favorite picture books (as I may have mentioned once or twice…):
If you ordered IT’S NOT MY TURN TO LOOK FOR GRANDMA! from April Halprin
Wayland’s website, her order form is broken and she didn’t get your
order. Please email her at aprilwayland@aol.com.
"Where can I find the unabridged editions of the Martha and Charlotte
books" is one of the questions I am asked most frequently. I have set up a page to list any sources readers alert me to. If you spot the books somewhere, please let me know and I’ll add the information to this list.
Please note: none of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books have been abridged. You can find them anywhere!
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the Little House books
via email lately, and I thought I’d post the answers to some of them
here so others can find them.
Where can I find a listing of all the Little House books in order?
Here you go:
Books about Martha Morse, Laura’s great-grandmother, by Melissa Wiley:
Little House in the Highlands
The Far Side of the Loch
Down to the Bonny Glen
Beyond the Heather Hills
Books about Charlotte Tucker, Laura’s grandmother, by Melissa Wiley:
Little House by Boston Bay
On Tide Mill Lane
The Road from Roxbury
Across the Puddingstone Dam
Books about Caroline Quiner Ingalls, Laura’s mother, by Maria Wilkes & Celia Wilkins:
Little House in Brookfield
Little Town at the Crossroads
Little Clearing in the Woods
On Top of Concord Hill
Across the Rolling River
Little City by the Lake
A Little House of Their Own
Books by and about Laura Ingalls Wilder (the originals):
Little House in the Big Woods
Little House on the Prairie
Farmer Boy
On the Banks of Plum Creek
By the Shores of Silver Lake
The Long Winter
Little Town on the Prairie
These Happy Golden Years
The First Four Years
Books about Laura’s daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, by her heir, Roger Lea MacBride:
Little House on Rocky Ridge
Little Farm in the Ozarks
In the Land of the Big Red Apple
The Other Side of the Hill
Little Town in the Ozarks
New Dawn on Rocky Ridge
On the Banks of the Bayou
Bachelor Girl
Important note: A few of the Martha, Charlotte, Caroline, and
Rose books were republished in heavily abridged editions. You can
recognize the abridgments by their photographic covers (pictures of
real girls). The orginal, unabridged editions have illustrated covers.
I highly recommend looking for the originals! For more information,
visit my Little House FAQ page. A list of sources for the unabridged editions can be found here.
For a listing of other books by and about Laura Ingalls Wilder, visit the publisher’s website: littlehousebooks.com.
Martha illustration by Renee Graef.
Jennifer asked for a photo of the crochet project I mentioned in my weekend crafting notes post
at the notes blog. I actually happen to have one already, which is
unusual for me. (I still haven’t gotten around to taking a picture of
those uneven curtains you were all demanding to see the other day.)
Jane and I were working out the pattern for these little picot square
table coverings I’m making to hide the scratches on our cheapo end
tables, and I liked the way her color sketch looked next to the
squares. (The squares are as yet untrimmed, unblocked, and unjoined,
obviously.)
This is the Picot Square Tablecloth pattern from Vintage Crochet,
a most delicious book. I’m making two smaller cloths instead of one big
tablecloth. There are pink and cream colored squares, too. I stole the
yarn from another Vintage Crochet project I have in the works:
the ripple stripe blanket. It’s a long-term endeavor. You can see a wee
bit of it creeping into the frame at the top right.
I like these starry squares because they’re so quick and finite.
Thinking in terms of "this square" is much less intimidating than "this
big huge project I’d like to finish sometime this decade."
Rilla inspects to see if it passes muster.
Hmm, I’ll need to see the pink one before I can make a judgment. I like the green one, though. It matches your bag.
My girls had a splendid time meeting last week’s Think! challenge: building a bridge out of cups, spoons, spaghetti noodles, paper, and tape. I forget the tally of coins their construction was able to hold, but the fun was in the doing, anyway.
This week’s challenge looks like even more fun. We are loving this nifty idea blog!
My blogroll is bursting lately with beautiful autumn posts and
pictures. After so many years on the East Coast, I’m still not used to
fall here in Southern California.
Around here, autumn is blue and green
and hot pink
and candy-apple red
and sunny gold.
It’s definitely fall, though: nippy mornings, Santa-Ana-hot afternoons, fruits ripening on the neighbors’ trees.
The bees here are pink and white this time of year, did you know that?
This one could be a New England forest floor carpeted with pine needles
but really it’s a close-up of a palm tree’s trunk.
Ah, here’s an honest-to-goodness autumn color shot:
This one seems more like spring-comes-to-the-woods than suburban-yard-in-October.
But these are San Diego’s true colors:
We took these photos on a walk around the block earlier this week.
It wore some of us out.
