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Strawberry Girl is a Newbery Medal winning novel written and illustrated by Lois Lenski. First published in 1945, this realistic fiction children's book, set among the "Crackers" of rural Florida, is one in Lenski's series of regional novels.
Lois Lenski has 233 books on Goodreads with 146308 ratings. Lois Lenski’s most popular book is Strawberry Girl.
Strawberry Girl was the first novel I read by children’s book author and illustrator Lois Lenski (October 14, 1893 – September 11, 1974). I read the book in the fifth grade in secret, because with its pink cover, not to mention title, was girly.
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Two of the first books she wrote and illustrated, Skipping Village (1927) and A Little Girl of 1900 (1928), drew upon her childhood in small-town Ohio, which she idealized, describing it in her autobiography as "simple, sincere, and wholesome." [9] .
The Strawberry Girl is an enjoyable read. Besides just being a story about a girl and their strawberry farm, this is also a story driven by anger, frustration, and competition from the competing farmers and ranchers.
Lois Lenski wrote Strawberry Girl as part of her mission to use historical fiction to introduce lesser-taught stories of marginalized people in America to children. Lenski wrote and published 98 books, including children’s literature and her memoir entitled Journey Into Childhood (1972).
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In Journey Into Childhood, Lenski wrote that she was struck by the fact that there were "plenty of books that tell how children live in Alaska, Holland, China, and Mexico, but no books at all telling about the many ways children live here in the United States". Bayou Suzette. Strawberry Girl. Blue Ridge Billy.
