Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink
Buy on AmazonCaddie Woodlawn is a children's historical fiction novel by Carol Ryrie Brink that received the Newbery Medal in 1936 and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. The original 1935 edition was illustrated by Newbery-award-winning author and illustrator Kate Seredy. Macmillan released a later edition in 1973, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.
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"My favorite childhood books were about horses and adventurous tomboys, like “Caddie Woodlawn,” by Carol Ryrie Brink. She was badder than the characters in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, and I liked her much better."
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