"This version of Marjorie Kinnan Rawling''s first novel captures the richness of the Florida wetlands and tells the story of a young man, Lant, who must support himself and his mother by making and selling moonshine. ""South Moon Under"" was included...
No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his famil...
Cross Creek is the warm and delightful memoir about the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- author of The Yearling -- in the Florida backcountry.Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the mil...
Rawlings' final novel The Sojourner is about the life of a man and his relationship to his family: a difficult mother who favors her other, first-born son and his relationship to this absent older brother.
...Written in 1928, the year Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moved to Cross Creek, her autobiographical first novel, Blood of My Blood, was never published. Its existence was unknown to her contemporaries - including Max Perkins, her editor at Scribner's. Bloo...
A depression era story that is just as timely as it is enchanting, this is a stunning picture book for the ages. There’s just not enough…not enough money, not enough food, not enough fish for her daddy to sell at the market. Hard times have c...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896 â€" 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction i...