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Cythnia Rylant didn't read much when she was a kid. "There just weren't that many books around," she remembers. "No public library, no money to buy books -- no bookstores, anyway." Instead, she spent her time playing, something she now says is the best thing for young writers to do.
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There was some writing available for her, in the form of Archie and Jughead comic books and paperback romance novels. So she earned her "training as a writer" with comics from the local drugstore, buying them "three for a quarter -- plus Danny Alderman who lived behind me used to trade me a big pile of his for a big pile of mine."
When she was four years old, Rylant's parents got divorced, and she moved with her mother to Cool Ridge, West Virginia.
She lived with her grandparents while her mother attended nursing school; their mountain home had no electricity or running water, and they had no car. Her grandparents grew and hunted their own food, and Rylant assures readers that, "Yes, I ate rabbits and