The Education of Little Tree

by Forrest Carter

Overview

The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826328090
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	08/31/2001
Edition description:	25th Anniversary Edition
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	890L (what's this?)
Age Range:	12 - 16 Years

About the Author

Forrest Carter (1925-1979) was born as Asa Earl Carter and was raised in Oxford, Alabama. He was a segregationist speech writer who reinvented himself as a Western novelist, publishing The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales, The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales, The Education of Little Tree, and Watch for Me on the Mountain.

Editorial Reviews

Some of it is sad, some of it is hilarious, some of it is unbelievable, and all of it is charming."—The Atlantic

From the Publisher

Topics include the impact of new technologies on instruction, the relationship of the library and information school to other teaching departments on a campus, education for informational professionals at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and the future of research in the information sector. Reprint (in cloth) of the 1985 (U. of New Mexico Pr.) paperback memoir of a Cherokee boyhood in the 1930s, by the man who later went on to write the Josey Wales novels. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

This is a candidate for high honours in audio tapes: the story is appealing, the narrator is excellent and the novel has been cut with great thoughtful-ness. Little Tree, orphaned at the age of five, goes to live with his loving Native American grandparents who teach him the ways of the Cherokee. The chapters are self-contained stories, yet the characters are sustained from one chapter to the next. This is due to the comfortable reading done by Peter Coyote who makes the listener believe that the story is his own personal history. Sounding a bit like Henry Fonda, he makes us cry and laugh and care, with straightforward acting and no tricks. J.P. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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