- Juvenile fiction, Social life and customs, Mountain life, Fiction
Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.
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Warm, earnest, contemplative and character-led.
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Cynthia Rylant
- First published
- 1887
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Dutton Children's Book, Tandem Library, PuffinBooks
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780525425250
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“When I was young in the mountains, Grandfather came home in the evening covered with the black dust of a coal mine.”
Cynthia Rylant is an American author and librarian. She has written more than 100 children's books, including works of fiction (picture books, short stories and novels), nonfiction, and poetry. Several of her books have won awards, including her novel Missing May, which won the 1993 Newbery Medal, and A Fine White Dust which was a 1987 Newbery Honor book. Two of her books are Caldecott Honor Books. Many of Rylant's books are about her childhood in Appalachia, her pets, the joys and hardships of family life, and the feelings of loners. Many of her books are written in series. - wikipedia
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