Nellie Oleson Meets Laura Ingalls by Heather Williams

I certainly never saw pure hatred in Nellie it was more the “meanness” of unrefined poor manners and bad behavior. Quick to anger, quick to blow things out of proportion quick to move on to something else. As a former teacher, I saw Nellie and Laura acting exactly as some little girls still act: competitive, overly dramatic, bossy, and sensitive – or insensitive – in turn. I saw Nellie wrinkle her nose and sniff and call Laura a “country girl,” something that didn’t seem to bother the slightly older and more mature Mary Ingalls. Quite frankly, I never read book Nellie as all that odious I certainly saw fictional Laura and fictional Nellie’s mutual childhood dislike for each other, and I saw it revisited in adolescence. In that entry, Sutherland also wrote that she “never really watched the television show, Little House on the Prairie,” and that her Nellie is based on the “book character.” Sutherland’s take on Nellie is that “she would have to have had a pretty sad life to turn into such a brat.” (This from Sutherland’s blog dated 16 October 2006, no longer online.

I recently read the “Little House / Big Adventure” book titled Nellie Oleson Meets Laura Ingalls, written by Heather Williams (pseudonym for Tui T. The following is a personal review of a book I read. Remember that.” – Nellie Oleson Meets Laura Ingalls, page 137. …”Living well is the best revenge, Nellie. “Little House, Big Adventure” book by Heather Williams.

Nellie Oleson Meets Laura Ingalls by Heather Williams