Natural Writer: A Story about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

by Judy Cook and Laura Lee Smith

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings dreamt of becoming a famous writer from the time that she was a young girl. After several years of searching for adventure and success, Marjorie finally found inspiration in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157505468X
• ISBN13: 9781575054681
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Inspiring Reading for Creative Youngsters

Creative youngsters of a somewhat higher age-range than the one recommended, about 8-15 years really, will find themselves inspired by the account of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' early struggle to find her forte as a writer, in this latest of the Creative Minds Biography series. Sprinkled with finely detailed, full-page charcoal drawings, it also draws an engaging parallel between the young Marjorie's life on a family farm and Jody Baxter's in "The Yearling." Marjorie's father Arthur Kinnan nurtured her love of nature just as Penny Baxter did for Jody, which gives us a fascinating insight into the true-life sources for Kinnan Rawlings' famous creations. The highs and lows of her life and career in rural Florida are then undramatically yet sensitively described: the book's tone is quiet and true, as clear and sweet as a brook in Rawlings' fiction.