October 15, 2008 @ 7:00 pm | Filed under:
Links I’m passing on some important information from April Halprin Wayland, author of one of my family’s favorite picture books (as I may have mentioned once or twice…):
If you ordered IT’S NOT MY TURN TO LOOK FOR GRANDMA! from April Halprin Wayland’s website, her order form is broken and she didn’t get your order. Please email her at aprilwayland@aol.com.
October 14, 2008 @ 12:00 pm | Filed under:
Links “Where can I find the unabridged editions of the Martha and Charlotte books” is one of the questions I am asked most frequently. I have set up a page to list any sources readers alert me to. If you spot the books somewhere, please let me know and I’ll add the information to this list.
Please note: none of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books have been abridged. You can find them anywhere!
A frequently asked question:
Where can I find a listing of all the Little House books in order?
Here you go:
Books about Martha Morse, Laura’s great-grandmother, by me, Melissa Wiley:
Little House in the Highlands
The Far Side of the Loch
Down to the Bonny Glen
Beyond the Heather Hills
Books about Charlotte Tucker, Laura’s grandmother, also by me:
Little House by Boston Bay
On Tide Mill Lane
The Road from Roxbury
Across the Puddingstone Dam
Books about Caroline Quiner Ingalls, Laura’s mother, by Maria Wilkes & Celia Wilkins:
Little House in Brookfield
Little Town at the Crossroads
Little Clearing in the Woods
On Top of Concord Hill
Across the Rolling River
Little City by the Lake
A Little House of Their Own
Books by and about Laura Ingalls Wilder (the originals):
Little House in the Big Woods
Farmer Boy
Little House on the Prairie
On the Banks of Plum Creek
By the Shores of Silver Lake
The Long Winter
Little Town on the Prairie
These Happy Golden Years
The First Four Years
Books about Laura’s daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, by her heir, Roger Lea MacBride:
Little House on Rocky Ridge
Little Farm in the Ozarks
In the Land of the Big Red Apple
The Other Side of the Hill
Little Town in the Ozarks
New Dawn on Rocky Ridge
On the Banks of the Bayou
Bachelor Girl
Note: Many of the Martha, Charlotte, Caroline, and Rose books have gone out of print and can be difficult to find. Some of them are only available in abridged editions.
For a listing of other books by and about Laura Ingalls Wilder, visit the publisher’s website.
Jennifer asked for a photo of the crochet project I mentioned in my weekend crafting notes post at the notes blog. I actually happen to have one already, which is unusual for me. (I still haven’t gotten around to taking a picture of those uneven curtains you were all demanding to see the other day.) Jane and I were working out the pattern for these little picot square table coverings I’m making to hide the scratches on our cheapo end tables, and I liked the way her color sketch looked next to the squares. (The squares are as yet untrimmed, unblocked, and unjoined, obviously.)
This is the Picot Square Tablecloth pattern from Vintage Crochet, a most delicious book. I’m making two smaller cloths instead of one big tablecloth. There are pink and cream colored squares, too. I stole the yarn from another Vintage Crochet project I have in the works: the ripple stripe blanket. It’s a long-term endeavor. You can see a wee bit of it creeping into the frame at the top right.
I like these starry squares because they’re so quick and finite. Thinking in terms of “this square” is much less intimidating than “this big huge project I’d like to finish sometime this decade.”
Rilla inspects to see if it passes muster.
Hmm, I’ll need to see the pink one before I can make a judgment. I like the green one, though. It matches your bag.
October 13, 2008 @ 6:00 am | Filed under:
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- SouleMama: For 2009 – Oh oh oh!!! Have you bought your 2009 wall calendar yet? I usually pick out an artist’s calendar for the year, but I might just have to go with Amanda Soule’s A Year of Craft instead. That red bird against aqua wall photo is the one that made me fall in love with her blog. ETA: Oh, shoot. It’s 28.95. Hard to justify spending more than 12 bucks on a calendar, especially this year. I’ll just have to keep up my ceaseless clicking around her blog.
- FreeRice: Subjects – Many thanks to Karen Edmisten for pointing out that FreeRice has added all kinds of new subjects to its “play this and we’ll donate rice to the World Food Program” game. I am loving the famous paintings quiz!
- Wonderful noodle stretching and folding video – Boing Boing – Fold the dough 12 times to get 4,096 noodles. Awesome. Jane, this one’s for you.
My girls had a splendid time meeting last week’s Think! challenge: building a bridge out of cups, spoons, spaghetti noodles, paper, and tape. I forget the tally of coins their construction was able to hold, but the fun was in the doing, anyway.
This week’s challenge looks like even more fun. We are loving this nifty idea blog!
October 12, 2008 @ 6:10 am | Filed under:
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