Author(s): Trudy Nicholson,Paul Mirocha,Sara St. Antoine
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 272
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Language: English
Date Published: 2006-07-20
Dimensions: 152.4 x 223.5 x 22.9mm
Publication City/Country: Minneapolis, United States
Edition: First Trade Paper Edition
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Written especially for families (with children ages 9 and up), this collection of stories, poems, and essays explores what makes the Gulf Coast region distinct, both culturally and environmentally. Four sections cover adventures (scalloping and hurricanes, for example); great places (swamps, bayous, lakes, and beaches); reapers and sowers (from cotton farmers to berry pickers); and wild lives (focusing on alligators, egrets, manatees, and other creatures). Featuring Choctaw legends and songs from the cotton fields, this book evokes the literature, history, geography, ecology, and society of one of America's treasured regions.