She's a Hollywood Western.

She's Jack Kerouac, but in a napdress with braids.

She is one of the most important American children's authors of the 20th century.

She's the basis for a television show still watched around the world.

I literally wake up in the middle of the night and go, somebody somewhere is watching

Little House of the Prairie.

Women will come up to me cry and saying, my childhood was miserable, and Little House

in the Prairie was my escape.

She's been called a hero, a racist, a feminist, and a propagandist.

Consider a native child in their classroom, reading it aloud, and they come to that sentence,

the only good Indian is a dead Indian.

She is Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Did you know she was a real person?

In the 1930s, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote the nine Little House on the Prairie books, based on her

childhood on the American frontier.

And in one way or another, she's been with us ever since.

Oh, I love you.

I loved them.

I loved Little House on the Prairie.

It's just a perfect book.

I've loved Laura for as long as I can remember.

As a kid, I used to map out her travels on my parents' Atlas.

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