![]() Their adventures would have appealed to me because, as a young child, I also spent much of my time exploring the world around me in a small, rural New England town. ![]() I believe it is worth trying.” So Caddie was allowed to run free with her brothers, Tom and Warren, all over the area surrounding their farm. I would rather see her learn to plow than make samplers, if she can get her health by doing so. Don’t keep her in the house learning to be a lady. Woodlawn told his wife, “I want you to let Caddie run wild with the boys. The book opens in 1864 with a description of 11-year-old Caddie Woodlawn, “as wild a little tomboy as ever ran the woods of western Wisconsin.” Caddie and her sister Mary had both been frail and sickly when the family first came to Wisconsin from Boston seven years earlier. ![]() ![]() Now I see why.Ĭarol Ryrie Brink based the book, and the character of Caddie, on her grandmother’s stories about her own childhood. ![]() I didn’t remember much about Caddie Woodlawn when I put it on my Classics Club reading list except that I enjoyed it. Part of the charm of rereading, as an adult, books that I read as a child is understanding and appreciating how I must have reacted to the books back then. ![]()
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