Dean Butler, star of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, shares his guide for rediscovering how to get along, how to persevere, and how to find meaningful connection with families, friends, and communities. He ties these lessons back to the beloved hit TV show, helping readers to live "The Prairie Way."

In her books, Laura Ingalls Wilder described the practical experience of surviving on the American frontier. She described what people did. Michael Landon showed viewers how those people felt, and how they related to each other. He also badly wanted to offer a vision of how to live good, kind, decent lives. For a decade, twenty-two episodes a year, Little House on the Prairie taught those lessons. All these years later, those lessons still inspire and reassure. Those lessons are needed now, more than ever.¿

Living the Prairie Way explains how we can do and feel as these beloved characters once did and felt.

Living the Prairie Way is Dean's distillation of the essential virtues and lessons of his extraordinary series. Those virtues and lessons are rooted not just in Michael Landon's creative genius, but in the American experience itself. From the importance of community and interdependence to the power of forgiveness and empathy, these are the values and commitments that sustained the people of Walnut Grove - and our ancestors. Living the Prairie Way blends stories from the beloved show with cultural commentary, some gentle humor, anecdote and insight. Structured around twelve key themes, Living the Prairie Way is Dean's guide for rediscovering how to get along, how to persevere, and how to find meaningful connection with families, friends, and communities.¿

In an angry and suspicious era, Living the Prairie Way is an accessible, useful, compulsively readable manual for co-existing with kindness and rebuilding relationships. It is a book rooted in the boundless, clear-eyed optimism of Little House. It is a call to come home to our best selves.