{"id":514,"date":"2017-03-14T20:12:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T20:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlehousearchive.wordpress.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2017-03-14T20:12:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T20:12:57","slug":"sarah-miller-revisits-caroline-ingalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjaminlefebvre.com\/littlehouse\/2017\/03\/14\/sarah-miller-revisits-caroline-ingalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Miller Revisits Caroline Ingalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming in September 2017: <em>Caroline: Little House, Revisited<\/em>,\u00a0an adult novel that reimagines Laura Ingalls Wilder&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Little House on the Prairie<\/em> from the perspective of Laura&#8217;s mother, Caroline Ingalls. From the HarperCollins website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in\u00a0a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before\u2014Caroline Ingalls, \u201cMa\u201d in Laura Ingalls Wilder\u2019s beloved Little House books.<\/p>\n<p>In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril.<\/p>\n<p>The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone, sickness tended without the aid of doctors, and babies birthed without the accustomed hands of mothers or sisters. But Caroline\u2019s new world is also full of tender joys. In adapting to this strange new place and transforming a rough log house built by Charles\u2019 hands into a home, Caroline must draw on untapped wells of strength she does not know she possesses.<\/p>\n<p>For more than eighty years, generations of readers have been enchanted by the adventures of the American frontier\u2019s most famous child, Laura Ingalls Wilder, in the Little House books. Now, that familiar story is retold in this captivating tale of family, fidelity, hardship, love, and survival that vividly reimagines our past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More information on this new book will be posted as it becomes available!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming in September 2017: Caroline: Little House, Revisited,\u00a0an adult novel that reimagines Laura Ingalls Wilder&#8217;s\u00a0Little House on the Prairie from the perspective of Laura&#8217;s mother,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","tag-sarah-miller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjaminlefebvre.com\/littlehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjaminlefebvre.com\/littlehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjaminlefebvre.com\/littlehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjaminlefebvre.com\/littlehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjaminlefebvre.com\/littlehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benjaminlefebvre.com\/littlehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjaminlefebvre.com\/littlehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjaminlefebvre.com\/littlehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjaminlefebvre.com\/littlehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}