By Nancy McCabe
McCabe, who grew up in Kansas quite a few hours from the Ingalls family’s domestic in Little residence at the Prairie, regularly felt a deep reference to Laura Ingalls Wilder, writer of the Little condominium sequence. McCabe learn Little residence at the Prairie in the course of her adolescence and visited Wilder websites round the Midwest together with her aunt whilst she used to be 13. yet then she didn’t learn the sequence back until eventually she determined to revisit in maturity the books that had so prompted her youth. It used to be this selection that eventually sparked her wish to stopover at the areas that encouraged lots of her adolescence favorites, taking her on a trip that incorporated stops within the Missouri of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Minnesota of Maud Hart Lovelace, the Massachusetts of Louisa may perhaps Alcott, or even the Canada of Lucy Maud Montgomery.
From Little homes to Little Women unearths McCabe’s robust connection to the characters and authors who encouraged many generations of readers. touring with McCabe as she rediscovers the books that formed her and finally helped her to forge her personal course, readers will take pleasure in revisiting their very own youth favorites as well.
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