Picture Puffin Books
5 total works
Because of a pooka spirit, Daniel O'Rourke embarks on a fantastic journey.
With vibrant colors and bold geometric forms, Gerald McDermott brilliantly captures the stylized look of Pueblo Indian art in this Caldecott Award-winning retelling of an ancient legend. A young boy searches for his father, but before he can claim his heritage he must first prove his worthiness by passing through the four ceremonial chambers: the kiva of lions, the kiva of snakes, the kiva of bees, and the kiva of lightning. Striking in its simplicity and grace, Arrow to the Sun vividly evokes the Native American reverence for the source of all life—the Solar Fire.
Winner of the Caldecott
Winner of the Caldecott
A very poor Irishman is provided with magical things by the "wee folk", but he must then keep his good fortune out of the hands of the greedy McGoons.
Retells a Congolese tale in which an ugly and unloved twin discovers a magic tree that gives him everything he wants.