2 Novels by Candice Ransom
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Overview: Simple and direct is better: I’m the author of 125 children’s books, including Iva Honeysuckle Discovers the World and Rebel McKenzie. I’m a ninth generation Virginian on both sides. I collect everything vintage. I don’t like this century (and wasn’t any none too crazy about the last half of the last one, either). Here, I tell stories, talk about writing, living in Virginia, and just plain old living.
Genre: Childrens books
Rebel McKenzie :
Rebel McKenzie wants to spend her summer attending the Ice Age Kids’ Dig and Safari, a camp where kids discover prehistoric bones, right alongside real paleontologists. But digs cost money, and Rebel is broker than four o’clock. When she finds out her annoying neighbor Bambi Lovering won five hundred dollars by playing a ukulele behind her head in a beauty contest, Rebel decides to win the Frog Level Volunteer Fire Department’s beauty pageant. Rebel may not be a typical pageant contestant, but how hard can it be? Rebel’s dramatic reading about life is the Pleistocene era is sure to blow away the competition. It turns out that winning a beauty pageant is harder than it looks. By the end of the summer, Rebel has learned a thing or two about her true calling that will surprise everyone–most of all, herself.
Finding Day’s Bottom :
Jane-Ery (11) is living in rural Virginia during the Depression when her father dies and her grandfather leaves his mountain to help her and her mother survive. Jane-Ery rejects having Grandpap take her father’s place: “I would brave all the ghosts in the Blue Ridge just to walk beside my father again.” Grandpap’s southern phrases abound, and his comment that one finds what one needs when one finds “Day’s Bottom” sets Jane-Ery to thinking about her own search. He tells southern tales to which Jane-Ery replies, “The youngest daughters in these stories are dumb,” and encourages Jane-Ery in pine-needle basketry. Headed to Richmond in December to sell baskets and black walnuts, Jane-Ery worries over unpaid bills, still missing her father terribly. By Christmas, she explodes at her mother, crying, “All you do is work and tell me to do my chores.” After a heartfelt conversation, she realizes that she has found “the bottom of the day” and she is, as the Cherokee’s believe, a young swan “protected-like.” Wonderful description, hill-country language, appropriate grief and honesty combine to offer a new take on an old story
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