I bought a series of books while we were on vacation. They are compiled writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder's magazine articles. She wrote for a few journals before she wrote her children's series. I read one while I was sick in bed last week, and I was surprised by how much the topics were things I still hear today. She spoke of taking care of the Earth and cleaning up litter, being a good friend, being a hard worker and honest, the busy-ness of life and how there just never seems to be enough time to get things done (even though there is just as much time to get things done as there was when you used to get things done), and that parents should be disciplining their children and not leaving it up to the state or the schools. I was really very surprised by how relevant and insightful her thoughts were. I plan to have my boys read the books when they get a little older. The problem is that I will have to black out the title: Writings for Young Women. There wasn't much that was only for young women in them, but I don't know if young men could get past the title.