If you look at other so-called children’s authors, you’ll see they never wrote directly for children. Though Lewis Carroll dedicated his book to Alice, I feel it was an afterthought once the whole was already committed to paper. Beatrix Potter declared, I write to please myself! And I think the same can be said of Milne or Tolkien or Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder was a 19th-century American teacher and writer. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer, teacher, and journalist. She is best known as the author of the children's book series Little House on the Prairie, published between 1932 and 1943, which was based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family. Read more on Wikipedia →