The Blind Boy and the Loon
Author | : Alethea Arnaquq-Baril |
Publisher | : Inhabit Media |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781927095577 |
Presents a traditional Inuit origin story of how the narwhal came to exist.
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Author | : Alethea Arnaquq-Baril |
Publisher | : Inhabit Media |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781927095577 |
Presents a traditional Inuit origin story of how the narwhal came to exist.
Author | : Craig Mishler |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2020-02-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1496210107 |
The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is magically restored by a kind loon. Variations of this tale are told by Native storytellers all across Alaska, arctic Canada, Greenland, the Northwest Coast, and even into the Great Basin and the Great Plains. As the story has traveled through cultures and ecosystems over many centuries, individual storytellers have added cultural and local ecological details to the tale, creating countless variations. In The Blind Man and the Loon: The Story of a Tale, folklorist Craig Mishler goes back to 1827, tracing the story's emergence across Greenland and North America in manuscripts, books, and in the visual arts and other media such as film, music, and dance theater. Examining and comparing the story's variants and permutations across cultures in detail, Mishler brings the individual storyteller into his analysis of how the tale changed over time, considering how storytellers and the oral tradition function within various societies. Two maps unequivocally demonstrate the routes the story has traveled. The result is a masterful compilation and analysis of Native oral traditions that sheds light on how folktales spread and are adapted by widely diverse cultures.
Author | : Rebecca Roan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2019-02-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681190443 |
For fans of Dragons Love Tacos comes a fresh, funny story that deals with everyone's least favorite thing: a cold. Is your dragon sleepy? Does he have a runny nose? Does he keep sneezing fire? Unfortunately, it sounds like your dragon has a cold. But luckily, this guide will help anxious dragon owners through the challenges of caring for their sick dragon! Balancing tongue-in-cheek humor through Charles Santoso's illustrations with gentle reassurance, this story proves that laughter really is the best medicine and will appeal to anyone who has felt under the weather.
Author | : Susan Bernhard |
Publisher | : Little A |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Families |
ISBN | : 9781503902985 |
"When the spring thaw of a frozen Minnesota lake brings about shocking revelations that lead to violence, 15-year-old Wes Ballot embarks on a search for his missing father, the truth about his mother's death and a future he must claim for himself."--
Author | : Franklin K. Mathiews |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 386741503X |
"The campfire for ages has been the place of council and friendship and story-telling. The mystic glow of the fire quickens the mind, warms the heart, awakens memories of happy, glowing tales that fairly leap to the lips." Contains stories from Jack London, Ellis Parker Butler and others. Originally published in 1921.
Author | : E.L. Doctorow |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1588368971 |
“Beautiful and haunting . . . one of literature’s most unlikely picaresques, a road novel in which the rogue heroes can’t seem to leave home.”—The Boston Globe SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Kansas City Star • Booklist Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers—the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley’s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers—wars, political movements, technological advances—and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves. Praise for Homer & Langley “Masterly.”—The New York Times Book Review “Doctorow paints on a sweeping historical canvas, imagining the Collyer brothers as witness to the aspirations and transgressions of 20th century America; yet this book’s most powerfully moving moments are the quiet ones, when the brothers relish a breath of cool morning air, and each other’s tragically exclusive company.”— O: The Oprah Magazine “A stately, beautiful performance with great resonance . . . What makes this novel so striking is that it joins both blindness and insight, the sensual world and the world of the mind, to tell a story about the unfolding of modern American life that we have never heard in exactly this (austere and lovely) way before.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Wondrous . . . inspired . . . darkly visionary and surprisingly funny.” —The New York Review of Books “Cunningly panoramic . . . Doctorow has packed this tale with episodes of existential wonder that cpature the brothers in all their fascinating wackiness.”—Elle
Author | : Tamra Wight |
Publisher | : Cooper and Packrat |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-09-18 |
Genre | : FICTION |
ISBN | : 9781939017024 |
Trouble has come to the Wilder Family Campground, where someone is out to harm a family of loons. Cooper Wilder and his new best friend, Packrat, must find the culprit, fend off a bully, save the campground, and still have time for s'mores!
Author | : Eoin Colfer |
Publisher | : Disney Electronic Content |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2009-11-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1423132084 |
Conor Broekhart was born to fly. It is the 1890s, and Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king's daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy's idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king.
Author | : Gladys Hunt |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310872642 |
A modern classic with over 250,000 copies sold, Honey for a Child's Heart is a compelling, essential guide for parents who want to find the best books for their children ages 0–12. A good book is a gateway into a wider world of wonder, beauty, delight, and adventure. But children don't stumble onto the best books by themselves. They need a parent's help. Author Gladys Hunt discusses everything from how to choose good books for your children to encouraging them to be avid readers. Completely revised and updated to keep pace with the ever-changing world of children's literature, this fourth edition of Honey for a Child's Heart reflects Hunt's broad tastes in books. Rooted in experience, her suggestions will enrich the cultural and spiritual life of your home. She shows you how to: Understand the importance of being a read-aloud family, enjoying books together by reading aloud Give your children a large view of the world, of truth, and of goodness Encourage each child's imagination and good use of language Find the best books for your children Illustrated with drawings from dozens of children's favorites, Honey for a Child's Heart includes book lists geared to your child's age and filled with nearly 1,000 long-time favorites, classics, and wonderful new books that will enrich your child's life. Thousands of parents have used it to furnish their children's inner spirit with the wonder and delight of good reading.
Author | : Lucy Sprague Mitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Children's poetry |
ISBN | : |
The stories in the book are grouped for expected developmental levels for children between the ages of two and seven, reflecting the growing world of the child from self-centric to an understanding of facts far removed from the child's immediate world.