Imagine you are reading a book that you loved as a child, perhaps you are reading it to your young child, or that you are reading it for the very first time. You come across the words “the only good Indian was a dead Indian.” Do you put the book down in horror,...

Laura McLemore
An educator since 1983, Laura McLemore was destined to a lifelong love of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her mother read Little House in the Big Woods in second grade and named her second daughter after the beloved author. McLemore portrayed Laura Ingalls Wilder for the first time in 1993. Since that time she has shared Wilder’s life across the Midwest. Laura lives in Maize, Kansas and is a fifth-grade teacher.