Pioneer Girl!

I'm so excited! I was at my local book store last night and, as I was leaving, lo and behold! There was Pioneer Girl, the recently published book containing Laura Ingalls Wilder's original manuscript. I've been planning to order it for a while, but it would have cost me about $60 USD (around $75 Canadian with our current, not-very-good exchange rate), so I kept holding off. It's a good thing I did! Because there it was waiting for me at the book store. For $58 Canadian. And I happened to have a big ol' gift card from a couple of years ago. So it was basically free! Yay!

I'm trying to restrain myself and only read a chapter at a time. I may have stayed up until 3am reading the first chapter. It is filled with notes and photographs and maps and pictures (original Helen Sewell illustrations and later Garth Williams ones). Positively delightful! I'm so happy and excited!