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Caddie Woodlawn's Family

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This is an advisory to anyone thinking of buying this book--it's "Magical Melons" with a new title. It's a wonderful book, so if you've never read "Magical Melons," you will enjoy it. Just be aware it's the same book.

While "Magical Melons" is not as good as its predecessor, it's a charming collection of stories that get into the lives of the other siblings and some friends of the Woodlawns. Although Caddie is still present, Clara, Tom, Warren, Hetty, and others get a little story as well.

The book is interesting to a reader of more modern children's literature in its terminology, especially concerning Native Americans. But its heart is in the right place, and those who express negative opinions about the native people are shown to be wrong. The book is also somewhat religious, but not in a specific sense. Religion is just another part of the Woodlawns' lives, and the morals in the stories don't pound you on the head.

I remember riding my bike 4 miles to another library to check this out when I was younger, and I still enjoy the stories today. Recommended reading for anyone that enjoyed "Caddie Woodlawn."

Caddie Woodlawn's Family (originally titled "Magical Melons") was written several years after the award-winning best-selling original "Caddie Woodlawn". This is a more loosely connected selection of stories about Caddie and her family which covers a wider span than the original book and even overlaps a bit. Although it sounds a little funny, it works (and even makes sense) since these are true stories written down by Caddie's granddaughter.

The stories are simple, but delightful. Not only do they give readers a glimpse into a different era (and in a way that isn't overly sanitized or modernized), but the stories are delightful in and of themselves. They are so real in illustrating the way children are and the way life is. And the icing on the cake is that they really happened.

If you liked Caddie Woodlawn even a little, you certainly won't want to miss these gems.

Caddie Woodlawn is a hyper pre-teen, 10, who is a tom-boy and loves to do unlady-like things. The great and unbeilievable thing about this book is true. Normally the girls back then were very proper. This is a great book and i highly encourage people to read it. This book was better than Caddie Woodlawn.

We read outloud the first Caddie Woodlawn book, and were so excited about it, we went online and bought the second one. It, too, has been a delight to read at night as our family time together. The stories are entertaining as well as historically informative. The Woodlawn books are a treasure we will always cherish.

). If you liked the Newbery Award winning Caddie Woodlawn, you'll want to read the sequel, Caddie Woodlawn's Family, which includes fourteen further tales relating the adventures of that high-spirited, lovely redhead, Caddie Woodlawn, and her six siblings living on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860s. Originally titled Magical Melons but renamed in 2000, probably to capitalize on the popularity of the original book, it is based on stories that the real Caddie Woodlawn told to her granddaughter who was the author. The original book covered one year, from 1864 to 1865, while the second covers a period of three years, from the fall of 1863 to the fall of 1866.
As the book opens, Caddie is ten and her brother Tom is twelve. The seven Woodlawn children discover a secret horde of watermelons in the hay loft that seem to have appeared by magic long after melon season. They adopt a baby lamb, engage in a cattail fight, and attend a medicine show. The one story that does not really belong to Caddy, about a young preacher in Wisconsin doing a favor for a wandering Indian, came from a gentleman who told it to Mrs. Brink, and she included it as a tale from the local circuit rider Mr. Tanner. Mrs. Woodlawn has always had bad luck with Caddie and white dresses, so when she makes her a new one for the Independence Day celebration, will Caddie ruin it too? The common euphemism "golly" appears several times, but otherwise there is nothing objectionable but just a lot of humorous reading that will delight any child, especially one who is interested in learning about how life for children on the frontier was in the middle of the nineteenth century.

I bought this for my younger g'daughter to read and the older one has also enjoyed the story.

This was a collection of stories about the Woodlawns, not all were just about Caddie, but a few were about Hettie and some of her other sisters/brothers. Most of the time I was laughing at loud..it was great.

THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN. i highly recomend his book so buy it and start reading. you will laugh you will cry and every thing in between. read it you will literally run outside screaming i love this book. im not kidding i did. its heartwarming and charming and yet has just enough humor. its altogether a good book. in fact im going to by a copy and pass it down generation to generation. read this book.

I read this with my twelve year old granddaughter. This was her introduction to Caddie Woodlawn and she loved it! These wonderful stories of pioneer life in Wisconsin in the middle of the 19th century are just as alive today as when they were written 60 or more years ago. I definitely recommend it for reading with children. I hope to see other Carol Ryrie Brink in Kindle format. She is an author for the ages.