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The Newbery Award committee members seem to love a strong girl and Caddie is among the strongest. She roams and tarries with her ruffian brothers on the wild plains of Wisconsin around the time of the American Civil War. Caddie plays practical jokes on her cousin, runs to the Indians to warn of a massacre, and proudly displays an Indian scalp belt for all the town to see. Caddie finally begins to see that becoming a lady is not just learning to quilt and say the right words and wear fancy clothe
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I read this book out loud to my two homeschooling children in 2001, not long after we moved to a primitive cabin in the woods in Northern California. We read a chapter every evening until the book was finished. It was the second book I'd read set in Wisconsin that year; the first was Rascal, which is about a raccoon.
I believe my children liked reading Caddie Woodlawn more than I did. They always looked forward to hearing another story from her life on the farm in pioneer-era Western Wisconsin. T ...more
I believe my children liked reading Caddie Woodlawn more than I did. They always looked forward to hearing another story from her life on the farm in pioneer-era Western Wisconsin. T ...more
I don't know why I put off reading this classic for so long, but it was wonderful. It reminded me of the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, which I devoured in elementary school, and even re-read them later to my daughter.
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