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Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse…
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Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky (edizione 2001)

di Kathi Appelt (Autore)

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One of the WPA's great successes, the Pack Horse Library Project of Eastern Kentucky provided books to those in remote locations.
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Titolo:Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky
Autori:Kathi Appelt (Autore)
Info:HarperCollins (2001), Edition: 1st, 64 pages
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Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky di Kathi Appelt

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Did this book make me cry? Only my dog can say for sure.

Many pictures illustrate the true story of the pack horse librarians of Kentucky. They put books, magazines, and newspapers into the hands of children and adults living in a book desert. ( )
  FamiliesUnitedLL | Jun 22, 2023 |
I really enjoyed this children's book about the Pack Horse Librarians. Having read The Giver of Stars, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, and That Book Woman (also a children's book), I appreciated the information and illustrations included this book. Hopefully it will help readers to understand what a gift it is to have access to immediate information, enjoyment and entertainment through our public libraries. Following Memorial Day and during this COVID isolation, it highlights the sacrifices so many Americans made to serve others and to provide education and support to those in need. The Pack Horse Librarians were true heroes of their time and touched the lives of many Appalachian families in Kentucky from 1935-1943. This rural service was sponsored by Roosevelt's WPA. A wonderful book for kids and adults alike. I highly recommend “Down Cut Shin Creek” and the other mentioned in this review.
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  WeeziesBooks | May 26, 2020 |
Did I enjoy it? Not a lot. Is it a good book? Very. Definitely should be in every elementary school library. Children will be amazed at how recently people lived in such extreme poverty in America, and at how courageous both the families and the librarians were. ( )
  Cheryl_in_CC_NV | Jun 6, 2016 |
The story of the pack horse librarians of Kentucky. Great for a history on the great depression. You could use this when you talk about how the great depression effected each country. ( )
  Lukesilvera | Apr 26, 2013 |
One of many innovative programs of the WPA (the Works Progress Administration) - part of FDR's New Deal initiative, instituted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression - the Pack Horse Library Project of Eastern Kentucky provided library service to communities that had never had it before, while also putting young women, often the sole remaining bread-winners in their families, to work. Mounted on sturdy ponies, the pack-horse librarians would ride all day, in every kind of weather, through the rough back country of Kentucky's hills, bringing tattered books and magazines to remote homes and rural schoolhouses. Paid only $28 per month, they were local women, often well acquainted with the people they were serving, and were dedicated, not just as workers, but as community members.

Their story, as told by Kathi Appelt and Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer, is engrossing. Not only does Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky provide a moving portrait of these extraordinary women (and one or two men), it also offers young readers a snapshot glimpse of one area of the country, during a period of great historical upheaval. As an adult, I found that there was much here that was unfamiliar to me - I was not aware that many of the residents of Kentucky's mountain country had been granted land after service in the American Revolution - and I imagine it will be the same with the intended audience. Well illustrated with black and white photographs from the period, the book is at the early chapter-book level, being a little too complex to be called a picture-book, but simple enough to be suitable for elementary school readers (as well as middle grade ones). A bibliography and list of web resources, as well as a helpful index, round out the features of this informative book.

Highly recommended to young readers with an interest in American history, or a love of libraries. They will come away with a greater understanding of the Great Depression, but also with a greater appreciation of the services, from schools to libraries, now available to them! ( )
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Kathi Appeltautore primariotutte le edizionicalcolato
Schmitzer, Jeanne Cannellaautore principaletutte le edizioniconfermato
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