Jesse Stuart

A little bunny delights in all the familiar things in his daily life.

The author describes his father, a simple farmer who was rich in his love of living things and the strength he drew from the earth.

A Kentucky farm boy tries to save his pet heifer from being sold for veal.

An autobiographical novel of Jesse Stuart's first year as school-district superintendent in his native Greenup County, Kentucky.

The author relates his experience in a hospital intensive care unit where, in a semi-conscious state after a heart attack, he reviews his life as a writer and as a man.

An autobiography of the writer Jesse Stuart, expressing, through his poetry, the most important phases, observations and events of his life. Includes photos and descriptions of the author's life.

"In twenty not-so-tall tales about rural politics in the South in rougher and tougher days, Jesse Stuart reminds us afresh that there's nothing new about political skull-duggery. The fact that he puts such labels as the Little Party and the Big Party or the Greenoughs and the Dinwiddies on the candidates doesn't mean they aren't the same old Republicans and Democrats you know so well-the wonderful folks who put Watergate on your TV screen."--Amazon.

Appalachian patriarch -- Why Menifree wasn't our country -- Give Charlie a little time -- Maybell's first-born -- Victory and the dream -- Wild plums -- Best years of our lives -- Builders and the dream --- Little giant -- Highest bidder -- Pilgrim out in space -- Twelve-pole road -- Lost land of youth -- Holiday with the larks -- Uncle Mel comes to the aid of his clan -- Eighty-one summers.

A young girl crippled by polio feels a special need to save the life of an albino deer with a broken hip.