Describes the qualities to consider in selecting the perfect rock for play and pleasure.
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*****The three-time Caldecott Honor partnership of Baylor and Parnall presents a radiant prose-poem about a girl who shares her love of desert life as she tells of treasured experiences such as dancing in the wind on Dust Devil Day and sleeping outside during the Time of the Fall...
A boy makes it possible for an old man in their primitive tribe to go in search of other men in far-off places.
Simple text and illustrations describe the characteristics of the desert and its plant, animal, and human life.
Text and illustrations describe how people all over the world celebrate the sunrise.
After hoping and trying, the narrator is finally able to hear the hills singing.
A girl discovers that her impoverished family is rich in things that matter in life, especially being outdoors and experiencing nature.
After hoping and trying, the narrator is finally able to hear the hills singing.
Determined to learn to fly, Rudy adopts a hawk hoping that their kinship will bring him closer to his goal.
After giving birth to Coyote Child and leaving him to fend for himself, Mother Moon listens for the moon song of all coyotes.
The daily life and customs of prehistoric southwest Indian tribes are retraced from the designs on the remains of their pottery.
American Indian children retell forty-one tribal legends in contemporary language.
A boy makes it possible for an old man in their primitive tribe to go in search of other men in far-off places.
Text and photographs capture a young girl's feelings about dance.
Considers the pleasures to be found in one's very own private place, whether it be a hollow in a tree, a sandy gully, or a secret sand dune.
Drawings and text present the many kinds of American Indian masks and their use with dances and songs to speak to the gods.
A collection of traditional tales from the Indians of Arizona, arranged in the categories "Why Animals Are the Way They Are," "Why Our World Is Like It Is," "Great Troubles and Great Heroes," "People Can Turn Into Anything," "Brother Coyote," and "There Is Magic All Around Us."
Focuses on the problems and experiences of a small group of Papago Indians who have left the reservation to live in a ghetto in Tucson, Arizona.