I see that a few other blogs are posting memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder, so I thought I would put in my two cents worth.  I was introduced to the "Little House" series by my maternal grandmother, Cledith (Bowling) Fee.  I was about eight years old at the time and our family was getting ready to leave our house in northwest Indiana for a trip to Grandma Fee's house in southeastern Kentucky.  A few days before we left, I talked to my grandmother on the phone and she let me know that she had purchased a book for me from my uncle's school book club called "Little House in the Big Woods".  I thought the book must have been about some animated house in the middle of a forest.  Little did I know that the book my grandmother had waiting for me would start a long love affair between me and the Little House series.  I probably devoured the book in a few days while visiting Kentucky and thought there was all there was to that.  Back home in Indiana, while at a bookstore, I realized there were MORE books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder about her life.  I was on cloud nine!!!  Whenever I was allowed to purchase something on a family shopping trip, or asked for a gift, it was the next "Little House" book.  My adventure with Laura Ingalls Wilder is one of the many ways my Grandma Fee enriched my life while on the earth, and her memory continues to enrich my life each day.  Thank you, Grandma.

Melanie