Rebecca Caudill

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Rebecca Caudill


Born
in The United States
January 01, 1899

Died
January 01, 1985

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American's children writer, as well as teacher and editor, known for her Appalachian fiction. Caudill graduated from Wesleyan College and, in 1922, received her master's degree from Vanderbilt University. She taught English in high school and college, and worked briefly as an editor. She moved to Urbana, Illinois, when she married James Ayars in 1931.

Caudill's book, Tree of Freedom, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1950. A Pocketful of Cricket was a Caldecott Honor Book.

The schoolchildren of her adopted state of Illinois vote each year on their favorite book. The winning book is given the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (RCYRBA) named in honor of Caudill and her contributions to Appalachian literature.
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Average rating: 4.14 · 3,754 ratings · 599 reviews · 35 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Best-Loved Doll (An Owl...

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Happy Little Family (Fairch...

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Tree of Freedom

3.70 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 1949 — 32 editions
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A Pocketful of Cricket

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Schoolhouse in the Woods (F...

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Up and Down the River (Fair...

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A Certain Small Shepherd

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Did You Carry the Flag Toda...

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Saturday Cousins

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3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1953 — 8 editions
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“The first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger ideas than when he began reading - that stimulates his thinking, stretches his mind, deepens his feelings. A good book sticks to your ribs.”
Rebecca Caudill

“With all the blue ethereal sky,”
Rebecca Caudill, Schoolroom in the Parlor

“Wherever people are chained, there'll come a chance some day to break the chains, I reckon.”
Rebecca Caudill, Tree of Freedom

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