Little House on the Prairie: Laura had me at the hat

There's been a short CiB hiatus while I attended an important family event, but now we are back in business with very important TV-watchingThe Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder are a phenomenon: always in print, beloved by generations of young people. Then came a legendary TV series in the 1970s and the 1980s: 10 years, hundreds of episodes, forever being re-discovered - most recently during the pandemic, when they were massively popular. So Netflix decided to make a new version: an 8-episode series which has just landed, with a further series already commissioned. I watched all the new programmes, reread some of the books, and looked at some of the old versions, and wrote an article for the i paper with my valuable, weighty perceptions. There were all kinds of interesting aspects: the Native Americans gaining Main Character Energy, the un-tradwifing of Ma, Michael Landon's hair in the original... and the key question of Laura's hat. You can read it here:…