Hideaway house,
AdeĂŒÂ€le De Leeuw
Hardcover
(Little, Brown, March 15, 1953)
A warm, pioneering story of new settlement and the concurrent perils, that has its kernel of plot in the refuge provided by a cave that children use as a secret play house. The Tituses and their youngsters Jonathan and Esther Ann move to Ohio in 1791 to start clearing land on a huge claim. With the other settlers near them they build, work, worry and have their rewarding good times. The Miami Indians, intermittently on the war path, necessitate wintering in a stockade, and when they attack in the spring, it is Jonathan's and Esther Ann's cave that provides safety. Children will like the feeling of adventure and hard won security, and the appearance at the end of Mad Anthony Wayne's troops, places the story in history. --KIRKUS REVIEWS