Little House on the Prairie
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Oct 27, 2026
John MacleanGUEST
Twain.
John MacleanGUEST
And especially Laura Ingalls Wells as well with The Little House on the Prairie.
John MacleanGUEST
You know, you get a slightly different view of that time.
Jamie BenningHOST
Yeah, because you've managed to make a Western that doesn't sort of conform to the cliches and the tropes that a Western has, because it's full of, like you said, it's full of European immigrants.
Catherine Grace KatzGUEST
My mom read everything aloud to us.
Catherine Grace KatzGUEST
She read The Chronicles of Narnia, Secret Garden, all of Little House on the Prairie, including like the prequels and sequels with the Martha Caroline Rose stories, all the English children's classics, stories like Harry Potter, that too.
Catherine Grace KatzGUEST
But a few of the things that really stand out to me is my favorite book from growing up.
Catherine Grace KatzGUEST
I was Little House girl all day long.
Nuala McKeeverGUEST
She sees the talent and wants her to stay on at school and go to college.
Nuala McKeeverGUEST
And, of course, the father's all, you know, it's kind of like the dark side of Little House on the Prairie, although that's pretty dark as well.
Nuala McKeeverGUEST
That's another book I read when I was a kid.
Nuala McKeeverGUEST
And I read it again as an adult and thought, oh, my God, it's so dark.
Alison ArngrimHOST
If you're listening right now to the Little House 50th Anniversary Podcast, we know something about you.
Alison ArngrimHOST
We know that you're obsessed with Little House on the Prairie.
Dean ButlerHOST
For more than half a century, Little House on the Prairie, the series and the books have been bright lights for people all over the world who seek out goodness, decency, and human connection.
Pamela BobHOST
Here on the Little House 50th Anniversary Podcast, we celebrate everything that made Little House so special.
Dean ButlerHOST
the stories, the characters, the actors, and the messages that have made Little House iconic family television.
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Dean ButlerHOST
So Allison, what is the Little House on the Prairie pilot
Alison ArngrimHOST
This is epic.
Alison ArngrimHOST
It's the book, Little House on the Prairie.
JJ FrancisGUEST
stages.
JJ FrancisGUEST
Okay, so when they're younger, of course, the Little House books.
JJ FrancisGUEST
All of our girls have enjoyed horseback riding, and so we've read through all the Marguerite Henry books, Billy and Blaze books for the boys.
JJ FrancisGUEST
They loved those.
StephanieGUEST
So, of course.
StephanieGUEST
the the vocabulary it just was like a large book so I was so excited uh to get them and to like play with because I used to play school all the time too so I'd like line them up and do all this crazy stuff but then to read them I was like oh my gosh these books are so big but um I definitely want to do a reread soon same thing with the Little House on the Prairie books um those now were even more of a chapter book you know and they had picture books that they had come out with That were shortened stories from Little House on the Prairie.
StephanieGUEST
So those are my jam those picture books like I would read them all the time.
StephanieGUEST
Renee Graff, who does the illustrations for the Kirsten Larson.
18 MINS LATER
StephanieGUEST
It might not be, but there was just so much that it was like, oh man, like I watched The Secret Garden.
StephanieGUEST
Oh look, that's set in the 1800s.
StephanieGUEST
I'm reading Little House on the Prairie.
StephanieGUEST
Oh wow, that's set.
Cara InfanteHOST
And I just it's funny because when I would write stories back in school, it was always like and maybe inspired.
Cara InfanteHOST
We'll talk about this probably a little bit, but like Little House on the Prairie, I wanted to go out to the plains and just start from scratch and build all this.
Cara InfanteHOST
And so I loved this because it felt like I was a bit doing that in your life.
Cara InfanteHOST
Oh, thank
Jennifer KabayGUEST
It provided a nice, you know, this setting that we could all imagine and feel.
Jennifer KabayGUEST
But my, I'm embarrassed to say, like, I think of Little House on the Prairie when I think of this sort of setting.
Jennifer KabayGUEST
I don't, that's my only, you know, this is not a history I know a lot about.
Jennifer KabayGUEST
But I didn't really get a feel for the sense of place like maybe he wanted to, outside of, like, the, the small towns and the, the one saloon and the one hotel and the one cafe.
Sid AdamsGUEST
Laura was excited.
Sid AdamsGUEST
She named Carrie because her favorite books at the time were chapter books that came from the Little House on the Prairie series.
Sid AdamsGUEST
Yes.
Sid AdamsGUEST
started the same way that laura lived in the big woods of wisconsin with her ma her pa her her big sister mary and her baby sister carrie and their good old bulldog jack
Lou PenroseHOST
You ought to be able to buy, you know, I mean, even Mary and Laura had a slate and a slate pen.
Lou PenroseHOST
Now, if you remember, Mr. Finity, on Little House on the Prairie, they couldn't afford to have two slates at the same time.
Kevin FinnertyHOST
That's right.
Lou PenroseHOST
They had to share a slate, right?
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