Her parents separated when she was four years old, and she was sent to live with her mother's parents in Cool Ridge, West Virginia, while her mother attended nursing school and was able to visit her only a few times a year.
Growing up in the Appalachian region of the U. Her grandparents, extended family and kind local townspeople provided a loving, nurturing, safe environment, while the little girl "waited As a result, she never saw children's books as a child, reading mainly comic books and enjoying the outdoors. Cynthia Rylant born June 6, is an American author and librarian. She has written more than children's books, including works of fiction picture books, short stories and novels , nonfiction, and poetry.
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Cory Schneider. Nicky Verstappen. Rylant doesn't remember being read to as a child, and didn't do much reading herself because there weren't many books available. There were no libraries, bookstores, or money to buy books. Rylant read Archie and Jughead comic books and Nancy Drew books.
When she got older, she resorted to paperback romance novels. It wasn't until she went to college that she began to read literature. Because Rylant thoroughly enjoyed books and reading, she thought she would become an English teacher, but after finishing college she couldn't find a teaching job.
She worked as a waitress and then got a job at the Cabell County Public Library in Huntington, West Virginia, in the children's department. Until that time, Rylant had not been exposed to children's books.
Her job as a librarian changed her life. Rylant loved reading children's books and within a short time she began to write children's stories. Her first book, When I Was Young in the Mountains , was accepted for publication in , just two months after she had submitted it to a publisher in New York. That same year, Rylant gave birth to her son, Nate she had been married and divorced.
Rylant has taught English as a part-time lecturer at various universities. Writing comes easily for Rylant. Consumed by this relationship, she did not have girl friends to turn to for companionship.
I was head majorette, a school queen, always the president of this or that. But those things could not give me what I lacked—one true friend. Enrolling at Morris Harvey College now the University of Charleston , Rylant initially planned to go into nursing like her mother, but switched her major after taking her first college English class.
Her first year of graduate school at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, was "without a doubt the happiest year of my life. Like a chocolate lover at a Hershey's factory, I was completely content. She also got a job at the public library in Huntington, working in the children's room. Reading the books she was supposed to be shelving, she discovered a brand new world.
I read children's books all night long. And I believed I would be good at it. I wasn't afraid of it. Rylant bought a copy of The Writer's Market, a book containing publisher information, and started writing. Even while keeping up with the many tasks of motherhood, Rylant managed to keep writing; six months after the birth of her son she wrote the words "when I was young in the mountains.
From all the fine books I had read. From angels. Without revising it, she sent it to E. A picture book describing Rylant's childhood with her grandparents in Appalachia, When I Was Young in the Mountains is a collection of vignettes about the busy, joyous life of a small community. The book was favorably received by critics such as a Publishers Weekly reviewer who stated that the author's debut "proves she knows precisely how to tell a story that brings the reader into the special world of her recollecting.
After the success of her first book, Rylant began to mine what she called in SAAS, the "a gold mine of stories stored up in my head. Memories I could use to make books.
I wrote and wrote, sold book after book, most of them true or partly true. All of them realistic. And most coming as quick and pure as that first book came.
In this work, Rylant portrays the happy and sad times she felt, such as the death of her father, while offering incisive portraits of local townspeople.
A reviewer in Publishers Weekly wrote that everyone in Beaver "becomes as real to the reader as they are to Rylant," while Ethel R. Twichell predicted in a Horn Book review that the poems "will gently pluck a long-forgotten memory or awaken a shared experience. Rylant's marriage to her first husband ended after a few years, and she then was married briefly to a college professor.
Meanwhile, she worked as a part-time English teacher at Marshall University for a year, then relocated to Kent, Ohio. Rylant received her library science degree from Kent State University in and got a job at the Akron Public Library as a children's librarian and at the University of Akron as a part-time English teacher. In she published her first novel, A Blue-eyed Daisy. The story describes a year in the life of Ellie Farley, an eleven year old living in the hills of West Virginia.
Ellie recounts several memorable moments that occur over the course of her eleventh year, such as getting kissed at her first co-ed party and attending the funeral of a classmate. Throughout the narrative, Ellie deepens her relationship with her father, Okey, a former miner who lost his job in an accident. Their ability to live life and endure ills is the core of an exquisite novel, written with love.
In Rylant published one of her most well-received books, the young-adult novel A Fine White Dust. In this work, Pete, a seventh-grader who lives in the rural South, becomes a born-again Christian after being converted by charismatic preacher James W.
When Carson offers Pete the chance to go with him as his disciple, the boy decides, after much soul-searching, to leave his parents and his best friend, Rufus. Carson, who is viewed by Pete as God in the flesh, eventually runs off with Darlene, a young woman who works at the town soda fountain. Although Pete feels betrayed, he comes through his experience with an unshaken faith in God and a more realistic view of human nature. A critic in Kirkus Reviews stated that "Rylant has explored a theme vital to many young people but rare in children's books.
Wilms wrote in Booklist that A Fine White Dust is "poignant and perceptive, with almost all of the characters subtly drawn. Based on her son and a dog Rylant knew, the book introduces Henry, an only child. When he receives a pet, Mudge, a three-foot-tall dog that appears to be a cross between a Saint Bernard and a Great Dane, the two form a deep attachment.
Tension comes when Mudge is lost, but happiness is restored when he is found again. She went to elementary and high school in Beaver, going from a tomboy who "stayed on [my] bike all day and had fun playing war and Tin Can Alley" to a majorette in the school band. When her plans to marry her high school boyfriend, Eddie, fell through, Rylant went to Morris Harvey College now the University of Charleston and then to Marshall University, where she graduated with a master's degree in English in Out of college she worked as a waitress for a while, then a librarian at the Akron Public Library.
She had discovered "literature" in college; now, working in the children's section at the library, she discovered classics like Goodnight Moon and Charlotte's Web. These first experiences with children's and young adult literature inspired her to write her own stories, so without telling anyone, she started writing at home.
The only stories I ever tried were called "My Adventures with the Beatles.
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