Why crush Caddie's independence and freedom all because the dishes are dirty.

Woodlawn, we could teach these men to pick up after themselves and clean the kitchen once in a while. What a rough world it would be if there were only men and boys in it, doing things in their rough way! OR MAYBE, Mr. It is the sisters and wives and mothers, you know, Caddie, who keep the world sweet and beautiful. A woman's work is something fine and noble to grow up to, and it is just as important as a man's.Even Caddie's father, who championed his daughter's rights to live a happy and healthy childhood, decides to backtrack and make her into a perfect little maiden. She does have fun adventures - like visiting the nearby Indians or playing pranks on her cousins - but those all felt like sparsely connect vignettes.Īnd the only theme to weave them altogether was her mother (and society) pushing Caddie closer and closer to traditional womanhood. I am a huge fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House series - so much that I reread it about once a year.Ĭaddie Woodlawn has much of the same premise, but without the same charm. But every redhead's temper has its limitations.Ultimately, this book was. The older she gets, the less she is allowed to adventure out into the woods and the more she pushes back. Her mother is at her wits end but her father enjoys his daughter's plucky spirit and propensity for mishaps.Ĭaddie, for one, enjoys her life as it is - snowball fights and hunting and adventuring with her brothers.īut all good things have to come to an end, and Caddie's childhood is one of those things. I wonder if it's always like that? Caddie Woodlawn, a fiery redhead growing up in Wisconsin in the 1800s, has always been a tom boy. How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same.

Disappointing and yet marginally charming.

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