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Caddie Woodlawn/Audio Cassette

Caddie Woodlawn/Audio Cassette

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ode to Caddie Woodlawn
Review: The most remarkable thing about the book Caddie Woodlawn is that it is a true story! The real-live person named Caddie Woodlawn was 82 when the book was published by her grand-daughter in 1935. By writing down the stories told to her as a child, Carol Ryrie Brink captures her grandmother's life as a girl growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860's. Caddie Woodlawn is a tomboy and likes nothing better than to go on adventures with her brothers Tom and Warren. She comes from a large pioneer family of seven children. Her older sister Clara is always acting more lady-like than she, and her younger sister Hetty is always tattling on her. Caddie has a fierce independent streak, and we discover what life was like on the frontier as we accompany her to school, and on visits to the neighboring Indian village. The book reveals the often tense relations between Native Americans and the European settlers. Because of her friendship with Indian John, Caddie alone is able to restore peace to her settlement by taking action before the frightenend white settlers attack the Indians. By the book's end, Caddie's refined cousin Annabelle comes from Boston, and Caddie the tomboy learns that maybe a few lady-like activities such as quilting aren't so bad after all. Any teen today will look up to Caddie for her self-confidence and bravery, and see their own rites of passage reflected in Caddie's experiences.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fun
Review: Imagine a 19th century girl who doesn't like knitting, who would rather spend time with her brothers swimming and making life an adventure everyday. If you can't visualize this then you have never met Caroline Augusta Woodlawn. She is the eleven-year old, red-headed, curlyqued, tomboy protagonist whose friend is an Indian.
Caddie lives in the pioneer days on the Wisconsin frontier. There is farmland scattered here and there, the woods to play in and also a rumor that the Indians are going to attack. All the neighbors seek refuge at the Woodlawn's house. Caddie finally gets brave enough and finds the courage to talk with the Indians especially her friend, Indian John. Will the Indians attack? If you want to find out, read the book entitled Caddie Woodlawn.
I enjoyed reading Caddie Woodlawn because Caddie is always finding some way to have fun. When her cousin comes for a visit, Caddie and her brothers Tom and Warren do all the things their cousin wants to do with her but they add a little twist to things. For example, when their cousin wants to do somersaults in the hay loft, she lands in a bunch of eggs. Caddie gets in trouble, but do Tom and Warren? There are some sad and tragic moments also. There is a prairie fire at the school, who puts it out? Some children at school have to allow their mother to leave them because she is an Indian. Will Caddie help them? If you want to find out read Caddie Woodlawn. I guarantee you that you will really enjoy reading this historical fiction book as much as I did.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Tomboy Caddie Becomes a Lady
Review: Caddie Woodlawn is an 11-year-old pioneeer girl livng in America during the Civil War. Caddie likes to run wild with her brothers and do very un-lady-like things like turning sommersaults in the haymow and plowing, rather than sewing and working around the house like her mother wishes her to do. Caddie has many adventures outdoors with her brothers, like going to Chimney Bluffs to pick berries and seeing a live rattlesnade only a few feet away from them! Caddie is friends with the Indians that live nearby, and she once saved them from being attacked by white settlers! A lot later in the book, Caddie and her family are given the chance to return to England, the place where Mr. Woodlawn emmigrated from, and live richly and fancily. They decide to stay in America and live as they are, free Americans. Caddie doesn't want to grow up to be a lady, but her father talks to her about how important ladies are and that she doesn't have to be a "silly,affected person with fine clothes and manners whom folks sometimes call a lady", as he says in the book, but a wise, understanding, and strong woman. This changes Caddie's mind and helps her be happy about growing up.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Caddie Woodlawn
Review: The one thing I really enjoyed most about this book is that it is a true story. The real Caddie Woodlawn was 82 when her granddaughter published the book in 1935. Carol Ryrie Brink writes about her grandmother's life as a girl growing up in Wisconsin in the 1860s.

Caddie Woodlawn is a tomboy who loves going on adventures with her brothers Tom and Warren. She is part of a large family of seven. Her older sister, Clara, is much more lady-like than she, and her younger sister, Hetty, is always tattling on her.

We find out what life was like on the frontier as we go with Caddie to school, and on visits to the nearby Indian village. The book portrays tense relations between the Indians and the European settlers, and since Caddie is friends with Indian John, she is able to restore peace to her homeland by taking action before the white settlers attack the Indians.

At the end of the book, Caddie's sophisticated cousin Annabelle comes from Boston, and Caddie learns that maybe some lady-like activities such as quilting aren't so bad after all, and this helps her to enjoy growing up.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Tomboy in MUCH mischief!!
Review: In 1864, Caddie Woodlawn was eleven, and as a wild little tomboy as ever ran the woods of western Wisconsin. A girl who would rather hunt than sew, rather plow than bake. She was the despair of her mother and of her elder sister Clara. But her father watched her with a little shine of pride in his eyes, and her brother's accepted her as one of them without a question. Caddie and her six brothers and sisters went through many adventures together.

This prize-winning book about Caddie's adventures on the frontier a century agao seem like just today, and most of them really happened to the auther, the granddaughter of the real Caddie Woodlawn. She based the book on true stories of pioneer days, that she heard her grandmother tell.

Caddie Woodlawn is a book you would want to take home for the whole family. This is perfect for any kind of tomboy ever teased.Adventurous kind of people will really enjoy the mischief these kids can really make. Everyone should own a copy of Caddie Woodlawn. This is ONE book that you will be able to read over and over again. No matter what age you are, you will never get tired of Caddie Woodlawn.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great book.
Review: If you love adventures and Wisconsin history then Caddie Woodlawn is the book you need. Caddie Woodlawn is a book about three children, Tom, William, and Caddie. This book is a great story for everyone to read!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Caddie Woodlawn
Review: The most remarkable thing about the book Caddie Woodlawn is that it is a true story! The real-live person named Caddie Woodlawn was 82 when her granddaughter published the book in 1935. By writing down the stories told to her as a child, Carol Ryrie Brink captures her grandmother's life as a girl growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860's.

Caddie Woodlawn is a tomboy who likes to go on adventures with her brothers Tom and Warren. She comes from a large pioneer family of seven children. Her older sister, Clara, always acts more lady-like than she, and her younger sister, Hetty, is always tattling on her.

We discover what life was like on the frontier as we go with Caddie to school, and on visits to the nearby Indian village. The book reveals the often-tense relations between Native Americans and the European settlers. The book tells the tense relations between Native Americans and the European settlers. Since Caddie is friends with Indian John, she is able to restore peace to her settlement by taking action before the white settlers attack the Indians.

At the end of the book, Caddie's sophisticated cousin Annabelle comes from Boston, and Caddie learns that maybe a few lady-like activities such as quilting aren't so bad after all, and this helps her to be happy about growing up.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Caddie Woodlawn
Review: This is a realistic fiction. The book is Caddie Woodlawn. The setting is in 1864. There is a girl , Caddie, that is a tomboy. She lived in a prairie in Wisconsin.

In her life she had friends named Jane and Warren, she has six brothers and sisters. Her life on the frontier was exciting. She lived with her mom and her father, Caddie had to wear dresses, but she and Jane were still tomboys.

The reason why I like this book is because it is about a girl that lived in Wisconsin. So since I just came to Wisconsin I would like to know about it. Another reason is that I heard it was a good book, so I had to find out.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best dang red-head of the midwestern plains
Review: Before you go buying just any old "Caddie Woodlawn" edition, I suggest you seek out and purchase one that has been illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. I'm a Hyman fan to begin with, and in no other version of this story will you find as perfect a melding of picture and text.

That said, this is a fabulous book, creating a historical figure that extends above and beyond that of the better known Laura Ingells Wilder. Both Laura and Caddie's stories were published in the 1930s and both concern pioneer girls living in the Midwest in the 1800's. There all similarities stop and Laura must bow down to the better book. The difference between the two (and the subsequent superiority of Brink's text) comes from the amount of interest children take in the books. While the "Little House" books are historically accurate and will repeat with perfect detail the intricacies of pioneer life, the "Caddie Woodlawn" books show the heart and soul of the people of that time.
"Caddie Woodlawn" was fascinating to me as a child. In what other book could you find a red haired heroine bravely crossing the frozen river on her horse to warn the local Native Americans of imminent danger? The presence of the Indians in this book is a complex one. The book is certainly a product of its times, to some degree. Children with multi-racial parents are referred to as "half-breeds" and Indian John (as the pioneers call him) has a stilted speech not found in more sensitive novels today. Just the same, a children's book that makes the bold assertion that white pioneers were far more likely to go about massacring the natives than vice versa is a bit of fresh air. Say what you will of the Woodlawns's acceptance being "inaccurate", it improves the novel heartily.

Finally, "Caddie Woodlawn" is just a lot of fun. Practical jokes, adventures, and creative methods of amusement fill the pages of this story. You empathize completely with Caddie when she feels the urge to tease her snobbish oh-Boston-is-heaven-on-earth cousin Annabelle.
If asked who the most amusing redhead of children's literature in the English language is, I'd eschew Pippi Longstocking and Anne of Green Gables any day in favor of that fantastic and amusing Caddie Woodlawn.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Pigeons or Peacocks?
Review: Irrepressible Caddie--a tomboy by temperament and with paternal permision--is growing up in the wild woods of Wisconsin in the 1860's. The despair of her Boston-bred mother and her proper older sister, Caddie is secretly admired by her other siblings. Brave to the point of being foolhardy, loyal to her friends and dogs, this spunky little gal of 11 revels in the company of her two closest brothers, some fairly tame Indians and that scamp, Uncle Edmond.

Author Brink has woven the girlhood memories of her grandmother, Caroline, into a year-long family portrait, which is reminiscent of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House
in the Big Woods. The plot is sometimes hard to discern as the story is spread out over 12 plus months, but the themes ring out with frontier clarity and timelss poignancy: the dignity of womanhood--despite the limited role of girls; the danger of fear-bred ignorance, rumor and racial prejudice; knowning how to value the present and not dwell in a painful past or seek a purloined future.

Although the book consists of 24 chapters with 270 pages, there is much dialogue which makes for fast reading. Of less interest to boys who prefer male protagonists and much physical action, CADDIE WOODLAWN is the natural literary successor to the LITTLE HOUSE series, with more depth and a pleasing balance between scenes of comic relief, crisis and tenderness. The author's personal note is a nice touch, but I was most impressed by her father's beautiful validation for woman's role in civilized society; it was sheer poetry and long-overdue praise for the distaff wing. It reminds me of an old sampler I once saw in my grandmother's attic: "The Hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." Sentimental--yes, but a
delightful read all the same!


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