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Posted: Feb 09 2007 at 8:54am | IP Logged Quote Mary G

I just blogged about this but seems Harper Collins will be revising the whole Little House series, including revising those written by our own Lissa!

Y'all might want to get Lissa's books from Amazon or elsewhere before they start the revisions. Check out   Lissa's blog for more info.

Here is a list of Lissa's books with an Amazon link. If you buy 3 you get the 4th free.
Martha Years (Laura's great-grandmother):
Little House in the Highlands
Far Side of the Loch
Down to the Bonny Glen
Beyond the Heather Hills

Charlotte Years (Laura's grandmother):
Little House by Boston Bay
On Tide Mill Lane
The Road from Roxbury
Across the Puddingstone Dam

You definitely want to have these in your personal library for your kids and grandkids!

ETA -- fixed the links folks, sorry about that!

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Posted: Feb 09 2007 at 9:40am | IP Logged Quote St. Ann

Here in Amazon Germany, one of the books is being sold for over 120Euros from another supplier.
I proceeded to look up the Caroline years. There are 2 different authors for those books???? Are these books also worth recommending? The Rose years?

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Posted: Feb 09 2007 at 4:38pm | IP Logged Quote Lissa

Mary, thanks for your kind words. Stephanie, yes, another author finished the Caroline series when Maria Wilkes decided the demands of her growing family (four children at the time) were too great to mesh well with writing. Historical fiction takes a LOT of time--so many little details to look up...

I'm sure Harper will find someone to finish my series too. I just can't think about that too much!

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Posted: Feb 09 2007 at 6:51pm | IP Logged Quote Lorri

I couldn't get the links to work, but thanks for the list.

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Posted: Feb 09 2007 at 7:52pm | IP Logged Quote Mary G

Lorri wrote:
I couldn't get the links to work, but thanks for the list.


I'm sorry -- I fixed the links if you want to try again....

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Posted: Feb 09 2007 at 10:27pm | IP Logged Quote almamater

I have recently purchased and received copies of all of your books, Lissa. Now what about the other authors' series? Does everyone like these as well? Should I be trying to scoop these up before it is too late?


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Posted: Feb 10 2007 at 8:23am | IP Logged Quote MommyD

I was just coming to ask the same question. I want to get these for my daughter before they chop them up .

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Posted: Feb 10 2007 at 9:43am | IP Logged Quote MommyD

Oh, my aching wallet!! Here is what I just ordered:

Little House in the Highlands
Far Side of the Loch
Down to the Bonny Glen
Beyond the Heather Hills

Little House by Boston Bay
On Tide Mill Lane
The Road from Roxbury
Across the Puddingstone Dam


Little House in Brookfield
LH at the Crossroads
Little Clearing in the Woods
Across the Rolling River
Little City by the Lake



LH on Rocky Ridge
Little Farm in the Ozarks
In the land of the Big Red Apple
On the other side of the Hill
Little Town in the Ozarks
New Dawn on Rocky Ridge
On the Banks of the Bayou
Bachelor Girls
Young Pioneers

I still need Concord Hill but I'll just have to watch for it later. Several of the books are not in stock at Amazon and said that they will ship in 4-7 weeks; will they really ship or will I get a note that they are no longer available? Did I miss any?

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Posted: Feb 10 2007 at 2:49pm | IP Logged Quote St. Ann

I can't get The Road from Roxbury! I tried Amazon.de and Amazon.uk with no luck! I am hoping that it will turn up somewhere.

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Posted: Feb 11 2007 at 4:02pm | IP Logged Quote Elena

Book Closeouts have some of Melissa's Books. I created a link for it and will keep it in my blog side bar as well. Melissa Wiley's Little House Books at Book Closeouts

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Posted: Feb 11 2007 at 9:10pm | IP Logged Quote almamater

Still wondering about the books by the other authors? Anyone have any strong feelings of love or distaste for any of them?


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Posted: Feb 12 2007 at 2:34am | IP Logged Quote St. Ann

My sister has read all of the Rose years books with her dd. My sister loves them!

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Posted: Feb 12 2007 at 10:30am | IP Logged Quote Chari

almamater wrote:
Still wondering about the books by the other authors? Anyone have any strong feelings of love or distaste for any of them?


Oh! We LOVE the Caroline and the Rose books, as a whole family! I read them all aloud, and then the children have read them to themselves. They are a MUST!

Just a warning, just my opinion: the second to last Rose book has some feminist ideas in them at one or two points and one time when she is riding with a boy when she is not supposed to be....I just skipped those parts since I was reading aloud and my kids were young. I never did read the last Rose book out loud to the kids......she gets married........and then divorced....and then remarried......and she spends alot of the book trying to decide who to marry.......obviously to the wrong guy

.....I just borrowed that book and read it to myself.....the others we own.

Have fun.......the books are SO fun to read aloud as a family! Start with Martha and go for it!

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Posted: Feb 12 2007 at 4:42pm | IP Logged Quote MommyD

Is there a list of titles anywhere? Amazon has a book in the Caroline series call "A Little House of Their Own" that isn't on the publishers site.
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OK am I the only weirdo here, after all this time I NEVER realized Lissa was Melissa Wiley!   Can we say DORK!!!!    I mean I know I'm slow but my goodness I thought someone was messing with my mind
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molly wrote:
OK am I the only weirdo here, after all this time I NEVER realized Lissa was Melissa Wiley!   Can we say DORK!!!!    I mean I know I'm slow but my goodness I thought someone was messing with my mind


LOL, Molly, I am sure you are not alone! It is a Superman/Clark Kent thing!

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Great analogy she is Superwoman!
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Posted: Feb 12 2007 at 10:21pm | IP Logged Quote Chari

Very funny, Dork....I mean, uh, Molly

I figured it out way back when.... here is what happened to me:

I KNEW Lissa on CCM.....and, I had a Melissa Peterson on my newsletter mailing list.

And, I knew that Lissa was Melissa Wiley.

It took a year or so, for me to figure out that Melissa Peterson on my mailing list was Lissa on CCM......I felt kind of silly, I mean, er, dorky, too

Do you feel less alone?

I wish I could have seen your face when this dawned on you

Talk to you soon......

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Yes I do Chari at least now I'm in good company
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Posted: Feb 13 2007 at 8:24am | IP Logged Quote Lissa

LOL LOL!!!!! You all are too funny!!

Hey, a little FYI about Bookcloseouts.com. That's a remainder house--meaning the author gets no royalties for those sales. I'm not pointing this out on my account (my LH royalty is tiny anyway--Laura's estate gets most of it), but just to put the word out there. Whenever possible, it's better (from a writer's perspective) to buy from a retailer than a remainder house. Not just to get the writer his royalties, but also to let his publisher know the book is actually selling!

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