The Relatives Came
by Cynthia Rylant
from Aladdin
In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars.
When they finally had to leave, they were sad, but not for long. They all knew they would be together next summer.
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
by Cynthia Rylant
from Puffin
For twenty years, Cynthia Rylant's story of childhood in the Appalachian Mountains has been an enduring favorite. Growing up in the mountains is depicted with a spare, lyrical text and beautiful, tender illustrations by Diane Goode. The book was awarded a Caldecott Honor Medal.
To celebrate its twentieth anniversary, When I Was Young in the Mountains is being released with a commemorative copper-colored band.
Illustrated by Diane Goode
Night in the Country
by Cynthia Rylant
from Aladdin
There is no night so dark, so black as night in the country. And while the people dream of daytime things, the nighttime world awakens. Owls swoop, a rabbit patters, and in the yard an apple falls -- pump! -- from the tree.
Listen. Go to the window. Across the field a light glows. Who else is up so late? Who else watches and hears the sights and sounds of night in the country -- the many stirrings of silence, the many colors of the dark?
Lyrical text and velvety pictures present a very different kind of nighttime: a mysterious, moving night that will lull small children to sleep.
The Old Woman Who Named Things
by Cynthia Rylant
from Voyager Books
Every Living Thing
by Cynthia Rylant
from Aladdin
Here are twelve deeply moving short stories from the perceptive pen of Cynthia Rylant. Each captures the moment when someone's life changes -- when an animal causes a human being to see things in a different way, and, perhaps, changes his life.
An Angel For Solomon Singer
by Cynthia Rylant
from Scholastic
In November
by Cynthia Rylant
from Voyager Books
Cynthia Rylant’s lyrical language and Jill Kastner’s rich, cozy paintings capture the cherished moments of this autumn month.
Henry And Mudge First Book
by Cynthia Rylant
from Aladdin
The first book in the acclaimed easy-to-read series featuring Henry and his lovable 180-pound dog, Mudge.
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