Thursday, April 7, 2011

25. West From Home

By Laura Ingalls Wilder
Rated 5 Stars
From: Library
Format:  Hard Cover

Laura Ingalls Wilder had a huge impact on my lifelong reading tastes.

Publisher Summary

Letters written by the author of the Little House books to her husband reveal her impressions of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition:"It is like a fairyland."So Laura Ingalls Wilder described her 1915 voyage to San Francisco to visit her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. Laura's husband, Almanzo, was unable to leave their Missouri farm and it is her faithful letters home, vividly describing every detail of her journey, that have been gathered here. Includes 24 pages of exciting photographs and completely redesigned jacket art. Children's Books of 1974 (Library of Congress)