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Title: Christmas In The Country by Cynthia Rylant, Diane Goode ISBN: 0-439-07334-0 Publisher: Blue Sky Press (AZ) Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful
Comment: The children and I were happy with this wonderful story. It is about a little girl who lives with her grandparents and her memories of happy Christmas days. The illustrations are wonderful and realistic. A must have for your Christmas collection.
Rating: 5
Summary: Archetype Christmas
Comment: Deep in the heart of most people who celebrate Christmas lurks the archetypal
holiday, the one depicted nostalgically in Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory," and
Dylan Thomas's "A Child's Christmas in Wales."
In the archetype, ritual is important, family and friends are important, snow is
good, and a tangerine in a stocking is enough to inspire oohs and ahs of delight.
"Christmas in the Country" is a worthy addition to the genre.
In it, our pony-tailed heroine lives in the country with Grandma and Grandpa in a
house that is "small and white. It had an old coal stove to keep us warm and a tiny little
kitchen for supper and a nice back porch for the dogs."
In the country, spring is for walks, summer for tomatoes, and fall for apples. In
winter, "The snow slows everything down. Birds are silent and serious. Dogs stay in their
warm houses. Children want cocoa and blankets. Everyone is ready for something really
special."
And - hooray - the something special has nothing to do with the mall or even
Wal-mart. Instead Grandpa will cut the tree in the forest, and the narrator and Grandma
will take the precious old ornaments from the closet that "smells like wool and mothballs."
Diane Goode's illustrations are just right - simple and energetic. Everyone's hair is
windblown at all times, as if country folk have better things to do than spray, mousse or
pin.
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Title: Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story by Cynthia Rylant, Chris K. Soentpiet ISBN: 053130051X Publisher: Orchard Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant ISBN: 0689714734 Publisher: Aladdin Pub. Date: 31 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow) by Cynthia Rylant, Diane Goode ISBN: 0140548750 Publisher: Dutton Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant ISBN: 0152024808 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant ISBN: 0152021027 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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