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Laura Ingals Wilder, "Little House in the Big Woods" (and subsequent books from the same series, about 8 or 9 in total)
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>>>Is that different from the well-known, and televised, "Little House on the Prairy" books?
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>>Little House on the Prarie is the second book.
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>>I understand the television series is losely based on the books. Very losely.
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>Looks like we both misspelt it: "prairie" :-)
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>Oh, I know the TV series was only loosely based on the books, esp. as there were more episodes than any one person could possibly write books (well, esp. back in those days - without word processors), and esp. after it got all a bit too "religeous" and far-fetched, due, I suspect, to the influence of Michael Landon, with "miracles" and stuff.
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What do you mean "without word processors"? A number of published writers (a surprising number to me) still write their books in longhand or on typewriters. And the lack of computer power didn't seem to slow Charles Dickens or Alexandre Dumas down much, to name only two examples.
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