Wendy McClure

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Don’t Trade the Baby for a Horse
And Other Ways to Make Your Life
a Little More Laura Ingalls Wilder

Amazon Kindle | B&N Nook | Google eBook | IndieBound* | iTunes

An electrical book? Such a marvel! More than a dozen half-pint-sized essays on savoring candy, singing worry songs, passing slates, and plenty of other approaches to living La Vida Laura. Read about smart muskrats, sugar barrels, pig bladder balloons, and more! Available for all major eBook platforms.

Tips & Additional Info

* To order a Google eBook through an independent bookseller, visit the Indiebound eBook page, pick a store (listed by state), then go to the eBook search link on the store’s web site. Enter Don’t Trade the Baby’s title or ISBN (9781101579732) and purchase.

Don’t have an e-reader? You can read the book on a computer, through a web browser, or on a smartphone with the following apps:  Free Kindle Apps | Free Nook Apps | Google Play Web Reader

Please note: this eSpecial is not available as a hardcover, paperback, or wooden three-penny slate. To publish it this way would cost many, many more pennies.

Recent Press and Links

  • Essay: A Little House Adulthood For the American Masters documentary on Laura Ingalls Wilder, I contributed a piece to the PBS website about revisiting the Little House books.
  • Essay: The Christmas Tape (At Longreads.com) How an old audio tape of holiday music became a record of family history, unspoken rituals, and grief.
  • Q & A With Wendy McClure Publishers Weekly interview about editing, Wanderville and more.

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Where else to find Wendy

  • Candyboots Home of the Weight Watcher recipe cards
  • Malcolm Jameson Site (in progress) about my great-grandfather, a Golden Age sci-fi writer.
  • That Side of the Family My semi-secret family history blog
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