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Title: When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant, Diane Goode ISBN: 0-14-054875-0 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Appalachia never looked so good
Comment: Author Cynthia Rylant has written a tender story of her childhood days, living in the Appalachian Mountains not so long ago. Accompanied by the excellent illustrator Diane Goode, the book is a straightforward look at life amongst the best-known American mountain folk. Scenes of daily life include everything from needing a brave adult to accompany you out into the dark scary night (on your way to the outhouse) to getting baptized in the local swimming hole.
The book is remarkable for its lack of overt sentimentality. Some might disagree with me, but I was struck by how this book did not fail to note the less than desirable elements of living in the wilderness. Swimming in a swimming hole of your own might be fun. Just watch out for snakes. And baths required an awful amount of work. Pumping the water. Carrying it to the house. Heating it. Goode's delicate illustrations accompany the text of this story perfectly. If Rylant says that the proprietors of the local store (Mr. & Mrs. Crawford) were identical, then gosh darn it, the people look identical. And I especially adored the moment when the narrator's grandmother kills a big nasty snake in the woods. The next picture displays the narrator, her brother, and two other red-headed childred posing sheepishly for a traveling photographer, gigantic dead snake draped across their heads.
I cannot think of many other book that take place in Appalachia. And I certainly can't think of any that are better than this. A sweet good-hearted story, "When I Was Young In the Mountains" understands what it meant to live a difficult life with pleasure and human warmth.
Rating: 5
Summary: When I Was Young in the Mountains
Comment: This is a magical book for those of us who remember grandmothers who were just like this. For me, a nostalgic evocation of time spent years ago in the West Virginia mountains with my grandmother doing the very things that are mentioned in this book. A very special book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A love song to the Appalachian region
Comment: Cynthia Rylant's enduring favorite "When I Was Young in the Mountains" is the tale of her own childhood growing up in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia. The gently repetitive text details her everyday life, from swimming in a swimming hole (even if there were snakes!) to taking a bath to drinking cocoa made by her grandmother. Each page starts off with, "When I was young in the mountains . . . " By the final page, we see that not only did Ms. Rylant appreciate her low-tech, memory-making childhood, but she wouldn't have traded it for anything.
Diane Goode's softly colored illustrations beautifully dovetail with the text, whether she's showing a river baptism, a nighttime trip to the "johnny-house" after too much fried okra, or a stint at the water pump. It's a lovely ode to the simple life, and to being happy with what you have instead of worrying about what you don't have.
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Title: The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant, Stephen Gammell ISBN: 0689717385 Publisher: Pearson Learning Pub. Date: 31 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant, Kathryn Brown ISBN: 0152021027 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant, Mary Szilagyi ISBN: 0689714734 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 31 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, John Schoenherr ISBN: 0399214577 Publisher: Philomel Books Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: My Mama Had a Dancing Heart (Orchard Paperbacks) by Libba Moore Gray, Raul Colon ISBN: 0531071421 Publisher: Orchard Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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