Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink

I actually read this before Rainbow Valley so we're slightly out of order here...Doesn't matter too much, though I do like to keep them in order.

I wonder how many guys in my demographic group have read Caddie Woodlawn...Well this one has. It reminds me some of the Little House (L.I. Wilder) series and also of The Great Brain (John D. Fitzgerald). Somewhere I got the idea that Caddie was this really wild pioneer girl so I was surprised that, though her mother thought her lacking in refinement, she wasn't really what I'd call "wild". I'd seen the movie before and she played some jokes on people and would rather stick with her brothers than be in the house "ladylike" but thats about it. It was pretty much the same story in the book.

It was a very short read but nice and easy and relaxing. Easy books are nice between the complicated or factual ones you know... Below is a link to a timeline of events in the area were the Caddie Woodlawn story is based. Give a click...

A Menomonie, Wisconsin Timeline