Best Selling Books by Rebecca Caudill

The two eldest children of a pioneer family are determined to carry their love of beauty and learning to their new home in the Kentucky Wilderness.

For a doll contest at a party, a little girl chooses to enter a doll that seems least likely to win a prize.

A boy takes his pet cricket to school where it first disturbs the class with its chirping, but then becomes the show-and-tell attraction.

And so the ambitious summer project began. Not that it ended in quite the way the girls were imagining. In fact, it sparked a flurry of trading, in which the girls somehow accumulated wealth in the form of unexpected friends, assorted animals, and other experiences "up and down the river," even as their collection of dimes and dollars seemed always to be slipping through their hands. In this third book of the Fairchild Family series, Bonnie and Debby Fairchild, occupying center stage in the family story, carry us through a summer season in the lovely hills of Kentucky of the early 1900s. Book jacket.

Jamie wins the coveted role of a shepherd in the school Christmas play. When a blizzard cancels the show he is heartbroken.

Five adventures in Bonny''s busy four-year-old life with her three sisters and brothers in the days of copper-toed shoes.

As winter arrives and the local school closes until summer, the Fairchild children continue their schooling in the parlor with the oldest, Althy, teaching.

During her first year in a one-room school in the Kentucky hills, Bonnie has many exciting experiences, from getting her first book to playing an angel in a play.

A little girl and her neighborhood friends help a puppy get over his "great big scare." Grades 3-4.

When two families of cousins take turns visiting each other on Saturdays they always have a good time.

Relates the episodes in the life of Contrary Jenkins as he lived by the "law of contrary" in Tennessee and Arkansas.

The High Cost of Writing is a talk given by Mrs Ayars (Rebecca Caudill). The talk was given at Southeast Community College.

A fifteen-year-old girl does not look forward to spending the summer on her cousins'' Kentucky farm, but, as she shares the family''s problem of drought, she begins to learn many things about her own interests and capacities.

In 1780, sixteen-year-old Ketty makes an adventurous and hard trip with her brother and others to French Lick on the Cumberland in frontier Tennessee.

Materials include correspondence, notes, and the second through the sixth and the final draft of the book, Higgins and the Great Big Scare, published in 1960.