Her tenacity and ebullient naiveté are extraordinary at once comic and thought-provoking, this first novel is a delight." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The period has rarely been presented for young people with such authenticity the exotic details will intrigue readers while they relate more closely to Birdy's yen for independence and her sensibilities toward the downtrodden. Superb historical fiction." - School Library Journal (starred review) The year is 1290 and the vehicle for storytelling is the girl's witty, irreverent diary.
"This unusual book provides an insider's look at the life of Birdy, 14, the daughter of a minor English nobleman. Sometimes the power is in deciding to be yourself in whatever cage you're in." For Catherine, and for me, there is no easy solution to the cages life makes for you. More than any other heroine I'd read, this one sounded like me.
In an appreciation in the New York Times, illustrator Vera Brosgol spoke for many fans of this beloved book: "I fell hard for Karen Cushman's Catherine, Called Birdy the second I opened it. Unfortunately, he is also the richest.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? Deus! Not if Catherine has anything to say about it!Ĭatherine, a spirited and inquisitive young woman, narrates in diary form the story of her fourteenth year-the year 1290. 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. Read the book behind Lena Dunham's acclaimed new movie! This historical fiction classic, told in the form of a diary, has drawn in generations of readers and is a Newbery Honor Book.Ĭatherine feels trapped. The beloved Newbery Honor Book's 25th Anniversary! (Bustle) New introduction by Linda Sue Park. With wit and determination, thirteen-year-old Catherine chronicles her sometimes outrageous strategies to thwart her father's plans to marry her off and finds "a way to make her voice heard among all of these forces that want to shut it down" in medieval England.
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