Since I actually remember reading this one in school, I thought CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY would be the perfect addition to my rereading project. Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY is about the daughter of a land-holding I remember this book being like a breath of fresh air because so many of the books we had to read in school were pretty boring because they definitely felt like literature for kids and a lot of them were about boys, as written by men. Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest Since I actually remember reading this one in school, I thought CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY would be the perfect addition to my rereading project. Then again, I couldn't do any worse than most parents.more You know, if I wasn't half-convinced that I would destroy the poor things with my eccentric brand of madness. I wish Cushman had created a protagonist who was both engaging to the reader and able to provide illumination of how much people have changed over time. People forget that 'teenagers' have only existed since the middle of the last century. Yet another author who transplants a spunky, modern heroine into a vastly different culture without an explanation of how such a character could have developed. You know, if I w Entertaining, but overall highly anachronistic. It's a brilliant book: one that I read over and over when I need a laugh.moreĮntertaining, but overall highly anachronistic. Birdy is by turns selfish, generous, compassionate, merciless, moody and serene. It has all the elements relevant to 14-year-old girls in America today: the longing for a best friend the parent-related angst the feeling that no one understands you the compulsion to do something that really matters in the world. The book is written as a journal and spans a year, during which Birdy learns to stop fighting against the position she was born to (including the arranged marriage!) Through her eyes, we come to see and know the village peasants as if they were old friends. While her father plots suitable arranged marriages for her and her mother tries to prepare her for being a wife by teaching her manners, needlework and herbal medicine, Birdy, the ultimate tomboy, plots ways to get rid of the suitors and sneak off to the village where she can help with the hay harvest and sing hey-nonny-nonny amongst the peasants. Birdy is the 14-year old daughter of a 14th-century landowner in Merrie Olde Englande. When it won the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature, it was Cushman's first book. While her father plots suitable arranged marriages for her and her mother tries to prepare her for being a wife by teaching her manners, needlework and herbal medicine, Birdy, the ultimate tomboy, plots ways to get rid of the suitors and sneak off If there were a 6-star rating, I'd give it to this book. If there were a 6-star rating, I'd give it to this book. U "Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life."Ĭan a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father?ĭeus! Not if Catherine has anything to say about it!. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call-by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man-any rich man, no matter how awful.īut by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. "Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life."Ĭatherine feels trapped.
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