by Donna | Nov 18, 2009 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: The Children’s Blizzard, by David Laskin. HarperCollins (2004), 318 pages. From On the Banks of Plum Creek, by Laura Ingalls Wilder: “Then I’d better get the wood up before we go to town,” said Pa. “I don’t like the sound of that wind, and they tell...
by Donna | Oct 15, 2009 | Angry, Opinions
HarperCollins has made a horrendous, unfathomable decision that will surely be studied in future college marketing courses in the same chapter as the “New Coke” blunder of 1985. In a woefully misguided attempt to keep the Little House series “relevant and vibrant” to...