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Caddie Woodlawn / Carol Ryrie Brink.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5583
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brink, Carol Ryrie, 1895-1981, author.
- Series:
- Acorn books ; AB5.
- Acorn books ; AB5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Siblings--Juvenile fiction.
- Siblings.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Wisconsin--Juvenile fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Settler colonialism--Wisconsin--Juvenile fiction.
- Settler colonialism.
- Wisconsin--Juvenile fiction.
- Wisconsin.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Brink, Carol Ryrie, 1895-1981 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [6], 185, [1] pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Acorn Books edition 1963.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; The Macmillan Company ; London : Collier-Macmillan Ltd., 1963.
- Summary:
- The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother's childhood, the adventures of Caddie and her brothers are still exciting over 60 years later. With each chapter comes another ever-more exciting adventure: a midnight gallop on her horse across a frozen river to warn her American Indian friends of the white men's plan to attack; a prairie fire approaching the school house; and a letter from England that may change the family's life forever. This Newbery Medal-winning book bursts at the seams with Caddie's irrepressible spirit. In spite of her mother's misgivings, Caddie is a perfect role model for any girl--or boy, for that matter. She's big-hearted, she's brave, and she's mechanically inclined!
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisement: Page [186].
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy inscribed by the author to "Jane" on half-title leaf.
- OCLC:
- 8898367
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