The Sketchbook of Thomas Blue Eagle
by Gay Matthaei and Jewel Grutman
In eloquent and often illuminating prose, accompanied *illustrations reminiscent of both Native American pictographic style and European influences, this fictional sketchbook details Blue Eagle's remarkable travels across the Big waters with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in the late 1800's. He performs with the legendary Annie Oakley, becomes famous in Paris, loses all of his money, wins it all back again in a suspenseful challenge with an Italian prince, and joyfully returns home. Blue Eag...
In the beginning, when the Great Spirit had made the first man and woman, he told Napi who was his helper: "Stay close to Man and Woman and look after all their needs." Man and Woman had no shelter at that time, but when Storm Maker blew the first winds of winter, they shivered, huddling close to their cooking fire. Napi knew they would need a shelter. While he was thinking about it, a yellow leaf from a cottonwood tree blew onto his head. "Yes!" he thought. "This leaf has the shape of a good s...
Runs Like The Wind Stops in Her Tracks
by Carilyn Alarid and Marilyn Markel
A young woman finds the course of her life influenced by her Navajo and Mexican heritage and especially by an older Navajo woman and a young Indian lawyer.
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER • AN AMERICAN INDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION HONOR BOOK • A BOSTON GLOBE–HORN BOOK HONOR AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY School Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • The Horn Book • NPR • The Bulletin • Kirkus Reviews US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s iconic poem "Remember," illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade, invites young readers to pause and reflect on the wonder of the world around them, and to remember the importance of their place in it. Re...
Alexandra's beloved grandfather was fond of saying, "Life is full of surprises, and sometimes the good and the bad get all bunched up together". However, he could not have prepared her for the shock of her life: the death of her father, a man she never knew, and his legacy -- a cabin on prairie land formerly owned by the LaFreniere family. Lonny LaFreniere's stepfather is the kindest man Lonny's ever known. But Lonny, tormented by guilty memories and dreams and visions he can't shake, rejects th...
A young Comanche boy experiences his tribe's conflicts with the Tejanos in 1840s Texas.
The Thunderbird Powwow is about to begin and Rainy still does not know what style of dance to choose so that she can be given her own special tribal name. Will she become a traditional dancer, a shawl dancer, or a jingle dancer?
The gifts of Magic Frog and his own hopeful and unselfish spirit bring Jumping Mouse finally to the Far-Off Land where no mouse goes hungry.