The Farm On Nippersink Creek (American Storytelling)

By Jim May

Book Overview

Likened by critics to Garrison Keillor only more deliberate and elegiac Jim May writes the stories of his youth, growing up in the rural Midwest between the Truman and the JFK eras, where trading stories was as common as trading horses, and frequently required the same skills. Neighboring, as his mother called it, was part of the social fabric. These 18 poignant and humorous stories of life's joys and trials told with the freshness of youth, yet tempered with the wisdom of age evoke a simpler time in our nation's history without romanticizing its inherent hardships.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874833396
• ISBN13: 9780874833393
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: August House Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher

Customer Reviews

Fond Memories

Face it, fifty years ago life was a lot simpler. Nippersink Creek was the mighty Mississippi to any nine year old boy living in Spring Grove. We might have been too young to read Tom Sawyer, but we sure could live some of the same adventures of that great book. Tempering some of those great adventures was the influence of Catholic School with it's Sister "Leon" and Father "Fritz." They tempered and helped shape the path that led us from the banks of that muddy Nippersink to wherever life took us. It was a special time and a special place. One never to be duplicated but only to live on in our memories and hearts. Life was simpler fifty years ago, and stories such as these remind us of that fact and help to reconnect to that special time.

This is what storytelling is all about

A great book that touches anyone who ever grew up. While it entertains and makes me laugh, it triggers memories of my own life and feelings...just like storytelling should.