28 Books -- Day 2

"Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little grey house made of logs." (and so The Little House in the Big Woods begins)

 

There is probably no book that had more impact on me as a child than the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder... (herein is where I begin to cheat on the definition of "book" ... just join me in thinking of them as a 9 volume novel) ...and I've got the yellow dotted-swiss sunbonnet to prove it.

 

On this day when groundhogs are all the rage here in Pennsylvania, it seems appropriate to talk about stories of wide open plains where inquisitive prairie dogs poke their heads up to watch the clouds slide across to the horizon.

 

( this way west... )