A thoroughly researched and critical examination of Wilder's entire body of work and problematic legacy

Miranda A. Green-Barteet is associate professor in the Department of Women's Studies and Department of English and Writing at University of Western Ontario. She is coeditor of Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond, and Race in Young Adult and Speculative Fiction. Her work has appeared in Canadian Review of American Studies, South Central Review, and the Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers.

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Anne K. Phillips is professor of English at Kansas State University. She is coeditor of Critical Insights: Louisa May Alcott and Critical Insights: Little Women. Her work has appeared in Frontiers in American Children's Literature, the James Fenimore Cooper Society Newsletter, and Children's Literature Association Quarterly.

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For all serious scholars of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her legacy, Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips have put together a useful collection of essays that reconsider Wilder's connections to truth, the American Dream, diverse cultures, and American literature itself. The essays are highly readable, and Christiane E. Farnan's article on Wilder in the American studies classroom with its comparison of contemporary texts is outstanding.

Nancy Tystad Koupal, director of the Pioneer Girl Project

Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond is an appealing, well-executed collection that will be of much service to those interested in Wilder's work and influence.

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