![]() The style here feels quite different from Goode's more recent, lighthearted watercolor illustrations, and I think I prefer it to that later work. The story is pitch-perfect, capturing the loving web of relations surrounding the young narrator, while the artwork, which netted illustrated Diane Goode a Caldecott Honor, is just lovely. It was the first of her many books, which include the Newbery Medal-winning novel Missing May. Originally published in 1982, When I Was Young in the Mountains was based upon author Cynthia Rylant's own childhood growing up in the Appalachian Mountains. In the end, the girl concludes that there is nowhere else she'd rather be. Rites of passage, such as baptism in the local stream, and small social interactions, such as buying butter at the local store, are lovingly recalled. ![]() Cared for by her loving grandparents - Grandfather a coal miner, Grandmother a homemaker - the girl and her brothers have an idyllic youth, surrounded by the beauties of their mountain home, and the warmth of their small community. The narrator of this beautiful picture-book relates the many things she did and experienced as a young girl in the mountains. ![]()
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