Now Louise Erdrich, the author of many acclaimed books for both adults and children, has embarked on a series nearly parallel to Wilder's and for the same audience of middle grade readers, but told from an altogether different angle. The original nine titles, translated into some 40 languages, are still widely read and loved. The books' endurance is almost as astonishing as that of the pioneers. The result - the legendary "Little House" series - has introduced millions of children to the story of settlers pushing their way across the middle of a continent, working hard and enduring much to settle a "new" land. In the early 1930's, Rose Wilder Lane, a journalist and an editor, persuaded her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, to chronicle her childhood in a pioneering family of the 1860's and 70's.
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