Caddie Woodlawn

Caddie Woodlawn is a popular children's novel by Carol Ryrie Brink which won the John Newbery Medal in 1936 and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. The original edition was illustrated by Newbery-award winning author and illustrator Kate Seredy. A later edition (1973), published by Macmillan, was illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.

Set in the 1860s, it is about a lively eleven-year-old tomboy named Caroline Augusta Woodlawn, nicknamed "Caddie", living in the area of Dunnville, Wisconsin in the United States, and her experiences with the nearby Indians. She is troublesome and the despair of her ladylike mother and sister. It was written in 1935; Brink transformed it to a drama in 1945. The sequel to the book, Magical Melons (1939), continues the story of Caddie and her family. An award winning musical (The Caddie Woodlawn Musical) by Tom Shelton and Susan C. Hunter, Brink's granddaughter, was also based on the book.

In a preface to a later edition, the author has said that the books were partly based on the life of her grandmother, Caddie Woodhouse and her siblings: elder sister Clara, elder brother Tom, younger brother Warren, younger sisters Henrietta (Hetty) and Minnie, and Baby Joe. The house where Caddie Woodhouse lived is now a historical site and a tourist attraction.

In 1935 Caddie Woodlawn was a great grandmother at 82 years old. This story is based on a real life story.