Laura Ingalls Wilder has become an icon of family values and honest, simple living, creating in her eight "Little House" books an American myth of the frontier. Hailed by readers in the United States and around the world as one of the greatest children's writers of the century, Wilder still reaches readers, both young and old, some seventy years after publication of her first "Little House" title. Conservative estimates of printings of her books tally at over forty million, making her one of the most successful of children's authors, as well. Wilder's immense popularity is in no small part the result of her living what she wrote: her books featuring young Laura and her adventures, trials, and hard work on the American frontier have a strong ring of authenticity. They are rich not only in their evocation of the intricacies of survival on the American frontier, but also...