Sallie Ketcham

Sallie Ketcham is the author of Laura Ingalls Wilder: American Writer on the Prairie (Routledge, 2014) and two critically-acclaimed books for children. She has been featured as an instructor and lecturer on the history of children’s books at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and, most recently, as a presenter at LauraPalooza 2015. See her contributions to the Little House on the Prairie website below.

Where the World is Topsy-Turvy: Rose Wilder Lane after the Great War

“It was a faith that made one humble, and a little ashamed…” Rose Wilder Lane, “The Children’s Crusade,” Good Housekeeping, November 1920. In the spring of 1920, not long after “The War to End War” staggered to its empty close, Rose Wilder Lane boarded the ship St. Paul in New York and steamed for…

Laura’s Frontier Fairy Tale

“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.” Little House in the Big Woods It is the opening line of an American classic, beloved by millions, instantly recognizable even to those who have never read the book Little…