APPALACHIAN
CHILDREN'S AND YOUTH BOOKS
Picture Books
Youth Novels
Newly
Reprinted Youth Novels
MOUNTAIN FICTION
Novels
Newly Reprinted
Novels
MOUNTAIN PEOPLE AND PLACES
Autobiographical Books
Cherokee Books
Photographic Essays
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN
APPALACHIA
RECREATION AND TRAVEL IN THE
APPALACHIANS
GUIDE BOOKS
REGIONAL STUDIES AND ISSUES
Literary Criticism
APPALACHIAN CHILDREN'S AND YOUTH
BOOKS
Picture Books
An Appalachian Mother Goose by James Still. Lexington: The University
Press of Kentucky, 1998. 55 pages illustrated by Paul Brett Johnson.
Here collected are little ditties loosely inspired by old-fashioned
nursery rhymes that James Still has collected and made up since his arrival in Knott
County, Kentucky, in 1932. "Bad Tommy Turner/You're due several
lickings./Whittle you a bill,/Go peck with the chickens." is a delightful example.
It is reminiscent of a Mother Goose rhyme, but has a decidedly
Appalachian flavor. Here's another: "There was a clever wife/Who lived in a
shoe,/She had a pack of young'uns/And she knew what to do;/She washed them and combed
them,/Picked burrs from their heads,/Gave them a sugar-tit and put/them to bed."
This book is perfect for grandparents to read to grandkids, and should stimulate
some good discussions about the good old days!**Click
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MOUNTAIN PEOPLE AND PLACES
Photographic Essays
The Tennessee Valley: A Photographic
Portrait photographs by Robert Kollar. Text by Kelly Leiter. Lexington:
The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 148 pages, oversized, with lots of color
photos.
This book presents the party line of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Those who have lived in the Valley since TVA's inception in the 1930s understand
that the agency which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created as an innovative helpful
agency has become simply another big business. The pictures here share with the
agency a conventionality and a pro-business perspective that is disconcerting in a
book of photographs. Almost every single one of the pictures simply looks like a
carefully staged publicity shot, and some of the pictures of giant factories have no
apparent aesthetic justification for inclusion. The pictures are taken by
TVA's chief photographer, and the TVA chairman has an early page in the book. The
text is written by the Dean Emeritus of the School of Communications of the University of
Tennessee.**Click
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RECREATION AND TRAVEL IN THE APPALACHIANS
Day and Overnight Hikes in the
Shenandoah National Park by Johnny Molloy. Birmingham: Menasha Ridge Press,
1998. 125 pages with an index and maps.
This is a really handy little guide book, conveniently divided into
one-way day hikes, loop day hikes and back-packing hikes, then sub-divided into the
Northern, Middle and Southern sections of the Park. At the beginning of each
trail write-up are easy-to-read-at-a-glance ratings for Scenery, Trail Condition,
Accessibility for Children, Distance, Hiking Time, Outstanding Features, Difficulty and
Solitude and at the end of each blurb are easy-to-follow directions. Thus this guide
is very convenient for leafing through as well as for detailed descriptions. Forty
trails are covered. Don't look here for in-depth information about natural or human
history of the area. This is a streamlined book geared toward practical information
for hikers. As such it is handy and highly recommended.**Click
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