Mentions that someone could be a witch (she isn't). The main character is Catholic and offers some prayers to Mary. Both scenes can be intense for younger children. A baby gets too close to an open fire and her clothes catch on fire. There were a few twists I didn't see coming and an ending I'm not quite buying in to, but overall a good read that I'd recommend.Ĭleanliness: Marguerite enters a cave and finds a button/buckle and a tuft of hair left over from a scalping. I could see a beginning reader/listener perhaps getting a little bored through these, but there are definitely some moments of intense suspense and action that make up for the slower parts. She faces one hardship after another but that doesn't keep her from being courageous and cheerful.įield likes to focus on seasonal and landscape descriptions and does them well. With slightly cliche characters (like Calico Captive - which I did like too), this book follows Marguerite, a French orphan who has become a Bound-Out-Girl to an English family settling in the wilds of New England in 1743. If you were to combine these titles in the style and atmosphere they convey, you'll probably have a good idea of this book. This book brought to mind Calico Captive and The Witch of Blackbird Pond. She died at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, California on Maof pneumonia following an operation.
Pederson in 1935, with whom she collaborated in 1937 on To See Ourselves.įield was a descendant of David Dudley Field.
Field also wrote the English lyrics for the version of Franz Schubert's Ave Maria used in the Disney film Fantasia. She is also famous for her poem-turned-song "Something Told the Wild Geese". Calico Bush still stands out as a near-perfect re-creation of people and place in a story of courage, understated and beautiful." Field was also a successful author of adult fiction, writing the bestsellers Time Out of Mind (1935), All This and Heaven Too (1938), and And Now Tomorrow (1942). According to Ruth Hill Vigeurs in her introduction to Calico Bush, book of Rachel Field for children, published in 1931, Rachel Field was "fifteen when she first visited Maine and fell under the spell of its 'island-scattered coast'. Her book, Prayer for a Child, was a recipient of the Caldecott Medal for its illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Nicholas Magazine and was educated at Radcliffe College. She is best known for her Newbery Medal–winning novel for young adults, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, published in 1929.Īs a child Field contributed to the St. Rachel Lyman Field was an American novelist, poet, and author of children's fiction.
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