by Carol Ryrie Brink
Coworker: I love Caddie Woodlawn. It's great. Me: Is it racist like the Little House books? Coworker: No. That's a rough estimation of what my coworker told me and, spoiler alert, she was wrong. Caddie Woodlawn contains bad depictions of Native Americans (I point you to American Indians in Child...
I wasn't nearly as enchanted by this as I was hoping. It wasn't bad, just a bit forgettable in the end. It was enjoyable enough in he moment and there were some really high points - mostly Caddie's adventures with her two favorite brothers. Those episodes rang the most true and, therefore, were t...
Reading this in your forties while you're also reading Lies My Teacher Told Me is very different from reading it when you're ten years old. Although even then, I remember cringing a bit.Because on the one hand, Caddie Woodlawn is all kinds of awesome. She's a redhead roaming wild in the woods of wes...
They made a TV movie of this when I was in third grade. I remember I did a book report on this and drew a picture of the cover and one of the girl's in class accused me of tracing it. I was so mad! LOL
Oh man, Caddie was an AWESOME MC. I read this one and did a book report on it. That year (4th grade I think?) we got extra credit if we let our teacher film our book reports. I think she called it "book talk." It was fun!
I remember loving this book as a kid! I read this before Anne of Green Gables and remember liking Anne because I liked Caddie.Ah, this takes me back
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 ma...
Fun bundle of reminiscences, folky, homey but to my mind ultimately slight on re-reading.
What does it mean that my childhood was filled with tales of girls acting up and running around and being tomboys? I never got to the part where the girls grew up and married and were perfect wives, although since so many of them were more-or-less true accounts of the author's own childhood, the gr...
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