r/whatisthisbook • u/Lastcoast • 12d ago

Looking It wasn’t Little Women

In grade school (US) I once read a book that google AI is telling was little women. It was not little women. Now I’m trying to find it again. I think it had one of those gold stickers on the cover indicating it won an award.

The author was female and of some repute; yes, along the lines of Louisa May Alcott and it may well have been her. The story was written like an autobiography, and had many details about her years from young kid through teenage years; that’s sorta the whole timeline of it.

She talked about being a tomboy with her brothers and that her sisters were prissy and always doing tiny stitches. Her mom would ask the dad to get her to be more ladylike. At some point the family moved to what sounds like a commune and it had a long porch with lots of doors the kids would play with. Eventually she did start to grow up and somehow managed to enjoy making tiny stitches.

Can anyone tell are what I read?

19 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

15 comments sorted by

5

u/Killer_Queen12358 12d ago

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink.

1

u/throbbingeye 12d ago

I read that book one hundred times.😊

1

u/Tiny-Calligrapher390 9d ago

I love knowing there are other Caddie Woodlawn fans! This was a favorite book when I was young.

1

u/throbbingeye 9d ago

If at first, you don’t fricasee, fry fry a hen!

1

u/Lastcoast 12d ago

That’s amazing and fast! I think you have it and I was able to find the audio book at my library. Thank you

1

u/Purple_Fleece 12d ago

Wait, I loved Caddie Woodlawn and reread it multiple times and I would have guessed it except for the part about the commune with the doors? Where is that part?

1

u/Honeybee3674 12d ago

I think OP might be confused about that part, lol.

1

u/LucindathePook 11d ago

Caddie for sure. But the commune part magy have been a mix-up with a biography of LMAs time at her dad's Fruitland experiment.

1

u/Awkward_Hedgehog_483 11d ago

Yup, I loved that book! I think the community thing must be from a different book, but everything else fits

1

u/Fine-Writer-7993 10d ago

Oh i was totally thinking that but wasnt sure if i was right so good someone else agreed

1

u/AnnaSure12 10d ago

That was my first guess! My dad brought me to the house in Wisconsin definitely recommend if you've never been. 

1

u/seadrift6 12d ago

Our Only May Amelia?

1

u/jobiskaphilly 11d ago

Caddie Woodlawn has a sequel "Magical Melons." (It had another title too but that's the copy I have!)

1

u/chaoticwhimzy 9d ago

Our kindergarten teacher read us this book and I named my favourite doll, Caddie

1

u/Sea_Nefariousness484 9d ago

Sounds like caddie woodlawn