![]() ![]() ![]() Because of some health problems when she was younger she is allowed to run free in the fresh air instead of practicing domesticity and stitching as her older sister and other girls her age do. ![]() Throughout the 275 pages that begin in 1864, when Caddie Woodlawn is eleven, we see snippets of her life, including her adventures with her two brothers, Tom (elder) and Warren (younger). The 24 chapters that follow are largely entertaining - but only mildly interesting. Supposedly there is even a park named in her honor that includes the homestead. Carol Ryrie Brink lived with Caddie Woodlawn from the age of eight, after the death of both her parents. Perhaps the most interesting part of this book for me was the Author's Note that precedes the story and explains that Caddie Woodlawn was Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother. ![]()
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