They’re also fairly episodic in plot, with each chapter (perhaps two) being one particular episode in the protagonist’s life. That’s not to say all Newbery Medals follow along with Caddie Woodlawn-clearly they don’t-but a lot of them do have the same type of formula to them: girl/boy is in the process of growing up, has adventures, learns lessons, does brave things, etc.
Rating: 3/5 If you were to think of a typical Newbery Medal book, you’d probably think of many of the tropes and techniques in Caddie Woodlawn, which seems to me to be the earliest of what I can only call the “Newbery Medal” formula, or perhaps, more simply, the “coming of age” formula. Caddie is brave, and her story is special-because it’s true, based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink’s grandmother, the real Caddie Woodlawn. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors-neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don’t understand her at all. She’d rather hunt than sew, plow than bake, and beat her brothers’ dares every chance she gets. Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink, was published in 1935 by Macmillan.
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