Caddie Woodlawn's Family by Carol Ryrie Brink

Caddie Woodlawn's Family by Carol Ryrie Brink

First published in 1939, this is the sequel to the Newbery-Award-winning novel Caddie Woodlawn.

Fourteen tales relate the further adventures of ten-year-old Caddie and her six siblings living on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860s.

Wisconsin and farm life in the years just before the Civil War, and the story of Caddie who became a tomboy and who learned to plough instead of sew. There is plenty of incident, and there is also an authentic picture of life on a frontier farm when massacre was a real threat and when a livelihood, hardly earned, allowed for fun in natural outdoor things.

Carol Ryrie Brink (1895-1981) was an American children's and adult author who wrote over thirty books. Her novel Caddie Woodlawn, which received the 1936 Newbery Medal for the most meritorious contribution to American children's literature in a particular year, is well-known. Carol was born and raised in Idaho, where she later attended the University of Idaho. She transferred to the University of California and earned a Phi Beta Kappa diploma in 1918. She married the following year and settled in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with her husband, where they raised two children and resided for more than forty years.

In 1934, Brink published his debut novel, Anything Can Happen on the River. The Book Crush Rediscoveries series includes three of Brink's children's books: Family Grandstand (1952), Family Sabbatical (1956), and The Highly Trained Dogs of Professor Petit (1953).