![]() ![]() Often we can send the writers the photographs and biographical material they want. We took the liberty of opening it as we do many of the letters that are addressed to Mrs. ![]() Wilder, the author of Little House on the Prairie, came several weeks ago. Here is Nordstrom's response (page 53 and 54) The letter writer's name is not provided in Dear Genius. Nordstrom was the editorial director at Harper from 1940 to 1973, and she was Wilder's editor. In Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom, is the following letter. I knew the publisher asked Garth Williams to redo illustrations for the book in the 1950s, but I did not know text had also been changed. When it was first published in 1935 by Harper, the illustrations were done by Helen Sewell. ![]() While doing research on Syd Hoff's Danny and the Dinosaur, I came across information about a revision to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie. ![]()
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