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Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books

Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books

by Pamela Smith Hill

University of Nebraska Press ·2025 ·384 pages
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Pamela Smith Hill delves into Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House novels, examining their texts, characters, settings, and themes to reveal how the books forever changed the literary landscape of children's and young adult literature in ways that remain meaningful today.

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"The picture [Wilder] paints of America is not pretty, but it has the virtue of being true ..."

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"She also solves a literary mystery that has long bedeviled Wilder's legacy—and millions of her readers."

Meghan Cox Gurdon· The Wall Street Journal Top of the Pile

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