And, boy, is it accurate on this wet July evening. That is how we’d say it in the Abenaki Indian language of my ancestors. Not just for toads but frogs of all species and sizes. That’s what the sticker on the back bumper of my car reads. Such books as Squanto’s Journey, The Winter People, and Code Talker. Books that presented history and Native cultures in an unbiased way (in terms of telling the truth and being deeply researched) and also provided the indigenous side of the story. Secondly, once I was on that path a major aim became writing the kinds of books I wanted Jim and Jesse (and, later, my grandkids) to read, stories that I’d wished I’d been able to find when I was a young person. Such books as Turkey Brother and The Wind Eagle. First of all, the traditional Abenaki and Iroquois stories I told them as bedtime stories (stories I’d learned not in my own childhood from family but from a wide range of Native elders in my adult years) ended up being my first book publications for young readers. (Oct.You could say that my sons turned me into a children’s author at a time when my main objective was writing and publishing poetry. Still, the story suffers from muddled storytelling. He also pulls off a few remarkable set-pieces, especially one where Young Hunter discovers a cave painting. I see something coming from this that will make our people weep." Davis's rugged, heavily stylized artwork is much more effective his painterly landscapes carry a lot of the book's scene-setting, and he gives its many long silent passages a lush and meditative tone. There's something curiously off about the tone of Bruchac's story: it's too deliberately paced to work as a folk tale, too otherworldly to work as straightforward narration, and his characters are saddled with leaden direct-to-video dialogue like "The twisting inside of him is strong. Eventually, he's given the secret of using a bow and arrow, saves the day, and gets the girl (she's from another tribe, so her speech is represented as abstract squiggles). Adapted from Bruchac's 1993 prose novel, this lengthy fable, set in ancient times and apparently inspired by Abenaki folklore, concerns a young Native American hunter (called Young Hunter) who goes out to seek vengeance after his village is attacked by man-eating giants.
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