A little about A Childhood in the Woods

 A Childhood in the Woods is a joyful memoir about growing up in a small one-room log cabin by the untamed forests of Northern Wisconsin. The book is a child-friendly description of a pioneer child’s life in the wilds of Wisconsin by the woman who experienced that adventure during her entire youth. The words of the author, Mary Bratman, offer a wonderful reminder of the daily life of Americans at a simpler time in our history. 

A Childhood in the Woods is an 8.5" square illustrated children's book which opens a window for 21st century children into a simple life, beautiful images and joyous perspectives of a sweet child from another era. 

 In 1961, a twelve-year-old boy handed his grandmother a mimeographed letter from his sixth-grade teacher. The letter requested information about the childhood of class members’ parents and grandparents. The boy’s grandmother, Mary Bratman, took her grandson’s request to heart and wrote an eloquent description of her experience growing up in the wilderness of Wisconsin at the turn of the century. 

Mary’s grandson, Roger Neumaier, saved his grandmother’s description of her childhood. Now, over six decades later, he has published her beautiful response in this book along with his own illustrations that assist younger people in visualizing the delightful images his grandmother documented.  

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