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Also by Wendy McClure:

Wanderville, February 2014
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The Wilder Life, April 2011
Hardcover

THE WILDER LIFE
By: Wendy McClure

My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie

Riverhead Hardcover
April 2011
On Sale: April 14, 2011
352 pages
ISBN: 1594487804
EAN: 9781594487804
Hardcover
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Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder-a fantastic realm of fiction, history, and places she's never been to, yet somehow knows by heart. She retraces the pioneer journey of the Ingalls family- looking for the Big Woods among the medium trees in Wisconsin, wading in Plum Creek, and enduring a prairie hailstorm in South Dakota. She immerses herself in all things Little House, and explores the story from fact to fiction, and from the TV shows to the annual summer pageants in Laura's hometowns. Whether she's churning butter in her apartment or sitting in a replica log cabin, McClure is always in pursuit of "the Laura experience." Along the way she comes to understand how Wilder's life and work have shaped our ideas about girlhood and the American West.

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All Things Considered - May 9, 2011