After the younger sister dies, Caddie’s father convinces his wife to let Caddie run with the boys (she has a brother just older and one just younger) and spend most of her time outdoors, helping on the farm, and running a little wild, rather than inside with her older sister and mother helping with the food, housekeeping, and sewing.
Caddie Woodlawn Book SummaryĬaddie’s family came from Boston, leaving behind the civilized life their mother still longs a little for, and Caddie and her younger sister were very sickly. If you’re not familiar with this Newbery-winning book written back in the 1930s, it’s the story of the author’s grandmother and the her escapades growing up in Wisconsin around the time of the Civil War. Reading this one together over the past month has been just utterly delightful. You know how some books you go back and reread and they’re not nearly as excellent as you remember?Ĭaddie Woodlawn is one of those childhood books that was even better reading aloud as an adult to Ella than it was when I was a child. Caddie Woodlawn is a classic children’s novel written by Carol Ryrie Brink about her grandmother and her pioneer family in Wisconsin during the Civil War era
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