Sweetly poetic, engaging, with even some humour thrown in for good measure (that for example eating too much okra can lead to digestion issues and long nighttime visits to the "johnny-house"), When I was Young in the Mountains shows the delights (but also hints at some of the struggles) Cynthia Rylant and her grandparents experience in the Appalachian Mountains of her childhood. The niece thought it looked like a nice summer, but there were too many snakes in the story.
He thought the story was ok and he gave this 3 stars. His momma would have a heart attack if he did that. The nephew would jump in the water with the snake, he said. I still love getting together with family. Now, I love my own space more and I can’t imagine being so packed together. I spent 50 weeks a year looking forward to these 2 weeks of the year. This very much reminded me of my time growing up with family reunions and all the hugs and people piling in together. I didn’t think it was especially Caldecott worthy, but it did tell the story just fine. Their grandma killed a long black snake and they took a picture with it draped over the shoulders of 4 kids to show how big it was. She had a dark water hole that snakes would be in and they would jump in anyway - I can’t imagine. It is nice to see what a loving environment she had to grow up in. This seems like a memoir of a girls time growing up in the coal mining mountains and all the good times she had there. Characteristically, she portrays introspective, compassionate young people who live in rural settings or in small towns and who tend to be set apart from their peers.
Rylant is perhaps most well known as a novelist.
A prolific author who often bases her works on her own background, especially on her childhood in the West Virginia mountains, she is the creator of contemporary novels and historical fiction for young adults, middle-grade fiction and fantasy, lyrical prose poems, beginning readers, collections of short stories, volumes of poetry and verse, books of prayers and blessings, two autobiographies, and a biography of three well-known children's writers several volumes of the author's fiction and picture books are published in series, including the popular "Henry and Mudge" easy readers about a small boy and his very large dog. An author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children and young adults as well as an author and author/illustrator of picture books for children, Cynthia Rylant is recognized as a gifted writer who has contributed memorably to several genres of juvenile literature.
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