Stories from Where We Live: The Gulf Coast (Stories from Where We Live) [Hardcover]

Trudy Nicholson (Author), Paul Mirocha (Author), Katrinka Moore (Author), Sara St. Antoine (Editor)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Stories from Where We Live

Spanning Texas to Florida, the Gulf Coast is one of America’s most distinct regions. This book, comprised of poems, essays, journal entries, and information on the area’s natural features, reveals the region’s remarkable richness. With stops in such uniquely southern locales as Texas’s Neches River Bottom, Mississippi’s Pascagoula, and Louisiana’s Bayou Dorcheat, the book introduces dynamic past and present inhabitants of the area, including Choctaw Indians, fur traders, cotton farmers, and city kids. Readers also encounter wild creatures such as rattlesnakes, alligators, mosquitoes, panthers, manatees, and whooping cranes. Literary selections by Zora Neale Hurston, Barry Hannah, E. O. Wilson, Joseph Bruchac, John James Audubon, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and other writers with ties to the Gulf Coast pay tribute to the region’s strong storytelling tradition. Maps and 30 black-and-white illustrations are included.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Gr. 7-12. In the latest in a series of regional anthologies, St. Antoine has brought together a fine array of essays, poetry, short stories, and excerpts from novels, all having something to do with the Gulf Coast locale. Nineteenth-century naturalist John Muir writes of getting lost in a Florida swampland; Dorothy Shawhan pens a witty piece on mosquito lore in the Mississippi Delta; and you can taste the fried buffalo fish and hear the blues refrains when Kathy Starr writes of her grandmama's Mississippi cafe. Teachers of creative writing will find much to offer students here. Attractive ink drawings embellish the text, and an ample appendix offers more information on the Gulf region. Anne O'Malley
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Review

This book is appropriate for readers nine and up and most adults will find they happily fit into that category. -- The Islander (Sanibel, FL)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions; 1 edition (November 20, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571316361
• ISBN-13: 978-1571316363
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,885,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing tour of a rich and diverse lan, December 4, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gulf Coast: A Literary Field Guide (Stories from Where We Live) (Paperback)

Part of the "Stories from Where We Live" series, The Gulf Coast: A Literary Field Guide is a collection of poems, essays, recipes, historical accounts, and true stories about the Gulf Coast region. Written for all ages from kids to adults, The Gulf Coast is as educational as it is entertaining, and the stories within tell of a legend about a Mississippi Choctaw hunter and an alligator; ivory-billed woodpeckers observed by John Audubon; violent hurricanes and mild winters; and land ranging from the watery Everglades to the Rio Grande delta to the beaches of South Padre Island. Black-and-white illustrations intersperse this amazing tour of a rich and diverse land, and the people, plants, and animals who inhabit it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing tour of a rich and diverse lan, December 4, 2006

By 

Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gulf Coast: A Literary Field Guide (Stories from Where We Live) (Paperback)

Part of the "Stories from Where We Live" series, The Gulf Coast: A Literary Field Guide is a collection of poems, essays, recipes, historical accounts, and true stories about the Gulf Coast region. Written for all ages from kids to adults, The Gulf Coast is as educational as it is entertaining, and the stories within tell of a legend about a Mississippi Choctaw hunter and an alligator; ivory-billed woodpeckers observed by John Audubon; violent hurricanes and mild winters; and land ranging from the watery Everglades to the Rio Grande delta to the beaches of South Padre Island. Black-and-white illustrations intersperse this amazing tour of a rich and diverse land, and the people, plants, and animals who inhabit it.