lordy wildwoman
That's my pen name if I ever publish any LH spin-off books. That way, they will show up right there on the shelf with the Wilders, Wilkinses, and Wilkeses. Of course, I won't be having any spin-off books published, because everybody and HarperCollins is looking for the next Harry Potter, rather than helping the steady old workhorse along.

I have been reading the latest (and last) Caroline book this evening. I'm sorry, but would have it hurt someone to do at least a little scholarly research for it? For pete's sake, it's incorrect about something as basic as who Charles Ingalls' siblings were! In the book, Peter and Charles are the big boys. Jamie, Hiram, and George are the middle boys. And there's a baby Lansford. Only in real life, there was no baby Lansford; there was only Lansford James: one brother. And in the book, George goes to school only in the winter, only in real life he would have turned six after the book starts.

In Farmer Boy, fictional Almanzo is "not quite nine years old," and he is just starting school.

Would it have hurt someone to have consulted land records and see that Peter didn't own any property? Or that Charles and Henry each owned eighty acres in the Big Woods; they didn't own eighty acres together.

Isn't there already enough incorrect information out there without adding to it? Some of us do care; honest.
- posted by pioneergirl at 12:12 AM