The Children’s Blizzard

The Children’s Blizzard

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...
Little House Series

Little House Series

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...