FREE HENRY AND MUDGE AND THE WILD GOOSE CHASE: THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF THEIR ADVENTURES PDF Cynthia Rylant,Carolyn Bracken | 40 pages | 01 Sep 2004 | Simon Spotlight | 9780689834509 | English | New York, NY, United States Adventure Stories | London Public Library In Henry and Mudge's twenty-third adventure, they're off for a day in the country. While Henry's parents are buying farm-fresh food, he and Mudge enjoy meeting some friendly farm animals -- but look out when they cross paths with an angry goose! Get a FREE e-book by joining our mailing list today! Plus, receive recommendations for your next Book Club read. By clicking 'Sign me up' I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the privacy policy and terms of use. Must redeem within 90 days. See full terms and conditions and this month's choices. She lives in Lake Oswego, Henry and Mudge and the Wild Goose Chase: The Twenty- Third Book of Their Adventures. Visit her at CynthiaRylant. 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A prolific author and illustrator of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children and young adults, Cynthia Rylant often bases her works on her own background, especially on her childhood in the West Virginia mountains. She is the creator of contemporary novels and historical fiction for young adults, middle-grade fiction and fantasy, lyrical prose poems, beginning readers, collections of short stories, volumes of poetry and verse, books of prayers and blessings, two autobiographies, and several biographical works. Some of her fiction for beginning readers are published in series, including the popular "Henry and Mudge" easy readers about a small boy and his very large dog. Other easy-to-read volumes include rhyming picture-books such as If You'll Be My Valentine and the highly praised Long Night Moon which describes the different moons that Native American cultures use to mark the changing seasons. School Library Journal Kathleen Whalin described Long Night Moon as a "thoughtful" and "radiant offering" for bed-time reading and added: "books this good come along once in a blue moon. While her elementary school-aged fans are legion, Rylant is perhaps best known as a novelist. Characteristically, she portrays introspective, compassionate young people who live in rural settings or in small towns and who tend to be set apart from their peers. Her young male and female protagonists meet challenges with the help of their families and friends as well as from within their strong, supportive communities. Praised for her sensitive depiction of young people and their emotions, Rylant is also acknowledged for her rounded characterizations of adults, especially the elderly, and for exploring themes such as religion and death that are not often addressed in children's literature. Rylant often focuses on relationships between the old and the young and between people and animals. In addition, she underscores her works with such themes as the act of creation, both by God and by human artists; the transforming power of love; the importance of all living things; and the need to let go. In addition to writing, Rylant also contributes illustrations to her own books on occasion. She began illustrating some of her picture-book texts in the early s and has developed a folk-art style that complements her stories. She has also worked with several outstanding illustrators, including as Peter Catalanotto, Barry Moser, G. Edwards wrote that Rylant "demonstrates an inimitable ability to evoke the strongest of emotions from the simplest of words. James Guide to Young Adult Writers concluded: "All of Rylant's stories, including her picture story books marketed for younger readers, create memorable characters and places and provide teens with a window on the world. Many of Rylant's works are rooted in the memories and images of her childhood. When she was four, Rylant's parents separated, and she went to live with her mother's parents in the Appalachian mining town of Coal Ridge, West Virginia. Rylant never saw her father again. He died in a veteran's hospital in Florida Henry and Mudge and the Wild Goose Chase: The Twenty-Third Book of Their Adventures she was thirteen years old. Rylant's mother soon left the family to attend nursing school, and was gone for nearly four years. Although Leatrel Smith wrote regularly and visited a few times a year, "it was," Rylant recalled in her autobiography, "not enough for a little girl. After her grandfather, a coal miner, was disabled during a slate fall in a mine, the family lived by the couple's wits and on food supplied by the government. Living in a four-room house without running water or indoor plumbing, Rylant learned about the joys of country life and the kindness of the townspeople. She summarized her years in Coal Ridge in But I'll Be Back Again: "My years with my grandparents were good ones, and while I waited for both my father and my mother to come back, I had big stacks of pancakes and hot Henry and Mudge and the Wild Goose Chase: The Twenty-Third Book of Their Adventures, hot dogs and chickens, teaberry leaves and honeysuckle, and aunts and cousins to sleep with at night and hug until someone could return for me. When Rylant was eight years old, her mother returned for her and the two moved to Beaver, a town near Coal Ridge. There they settled in a three-room apartment with running water, an indoor bathroom, and a television set. Our country was falling apart with war and riots and assassinations but the Beatles gave me shelter from these things in their music and in the dreams they caused me to dream. During her early years, Rylant was not much of a reader. As she mused in SAAS, "I guess most people assume that future famous authors are supposed to be reading fat hardbound books and writing poetry by age ten. But all I wanted to do was read Archie and play the Beatles. Of her final decision to write, she wrote in SAAS: "It wasn't Henry and Mudge and the Wild Goose Chase: The Twenty-Third Book of Their Adventures obvious talent, it wasn't piles of poems or short stories which were the hints in my childhood that I might be a writer someday. The clues were much more subtle and had something to do with the way I grieved over stray animals, the heroes I chose a presidential candidate, a symphony orchestra conductorand the love I had of solitude. It is called sensitivity, this quality which sets creative people apart. In junior high, Rylant was a typical boy-crazy preteen, but high school was more difficult. When she was thirteen years old, Rylant's father died, and she was also deeply affected by the assassination of Massachusetts senator Robert Kennedy, whom she had met when he came to West Virginia as part of his presidential campaign. Rylant also fell in Henry and Mudge and the Wild Goose Chase: The Twenty-Third Book of Their Adventures with a boy from school, and when he dropped her for another girl, she was devastated. She took him back, but he did the same thing a year later. 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 CharlestonRylant 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.