Having a retold folktale that specifically names the culture/people it is taking the tale from easily allows anyone reading to find the source material, but it's not always easy for an outsider to see the problems in a retelling. Thank goodness for Debbie Reese. Check out her posts on McDermott's Ar...
Genre: Native American / Parental Issues / Folktale / Fantasy Year Published: 1974 Year Read: 2010Publisher: The Viking PressSource: Library “Arrow to the Sun” is a Caldecott Medal Award winning book by Gerald McDermott that relates an old Pueblo Indian tale about a boy who tries to find his ...
adapted and illustrated by Gerald McDermott I liked McDermott's bold and interesting illustrations.
11/25/13 ** Hmmm, my curricular cycle seems to be a little ahead of last year's. Kids loved this just as much this year as last year.12/3/12 ** Read this aloud as part of a unit with my fourth graders in which we are comparing and contrasting various trickster tales and discussing the ways that cult...
Crows and ravens are venerated birds in the stories and legends of Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest. They are considered to be light-bringers to this often dark and grey region, so in other words, extremely important animals! These birds are ever present here, and they really seem t...
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