[PDF] The Drum Calls Softly eBook

Author : David Bouchard
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780889954212

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Using text in both English and Cree, presents the round dance, a celebration of the seasons, and describes how the dance connects the Cree people to the natural world around them.

Author : Matthew Forsythe
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481480391

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 A Today Show Best Book of the Year A Booklist Book for Youth Editors’ Choice 2019 A Boston Globe–Horn Picture Book Honor Book 2020 An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 A Quill & Quire 2019 Book for Young People of the Year “Extraordinary.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Inspirational.” —Booklist (starred review) “Laugh-out-loud funny.” —Shelf Awareness (starred review) “Will tickle kids and adults alike.” —Kirkus Reviews “An instant classic.” —Quill & Quire (starred review) From E.B. White Read Aloud honor artist Matthew Forsythe comes a picture book about a magical drum, an emerald forest, and the little frog who dares to make her own music. The biggest mistake Pokko’s parents ever made was giving her the drum. When Pokko takes the drum deep into the forest it is so quiet, so very quiet that Pokko decides to play. And before she knows it she is joined by a band of animals —first the raccoon, then the rabbit, then the wolf—and soon the entire forest is following her. Will Pokko hear her father’s voice when he calls her home? Pokko and the Drum is a story about art, persistence, and a family of frogs living in a mushroom.

Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061748870

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“Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see—to the dead alive and busy, to the breath of trees and the souls of wolves—and inspires readers to open their hearts to these mysteries as well.”— Washington Post Book World From the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich's breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years. While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined. Compelling and unforgettable, Louise Erdrich's Painted Drum explores the often-fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, the strength of family, and the intricate rhythms of grief with all the grace, wit, and startling beauty that characterizes this acclaimed author's finest work.

Author : Dave Bouchard
Publisher : Calgary : Northern Lights Books for Children
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780889953673

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Parallel text in English and Cree presents a poetic conversation between a boy and his grandmother as they discuss the importance of reading and how to blend life outside the reservation with Cree skills and traditions.

Author : Herlin Riley
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drum
ISBN : 9780897249218

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This book is based on performances and transcriptions from the DCI music videos Herlin Riley: Ragtime & beyond, and Johnny Vidacovich: Street beats modern applications. Additional interviews and essays on: Baby Dodds, Vernel Fournier, Ed Blackwell, James Black and Freddie Kohlman, Smokey Johnson, David Lee, and bassist Bill Huntington.

Author : Nancy Van Laan
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 1991-07-02
Category : Fire
ISBN : 9780833578471

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For use in schools and libraries only. When the weather changes and the ever-falling snow threatens to engulf all the animals, it is Crow who flies up to receive the gift of fire from the Great Sky Spirit.

Author : Maria Dermout
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590178823

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Set between Holland and a remote Indonesian island, this intimate magical realism novel offers “an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of a legend” (Time). “Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.

Author :
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822214533

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THE STORY: From what may be the greatest novel about baseball ever written comes a profoundly moving play. Set in 1956, the play concerns the New York Mammoths, a fictional baseball team. As with any season, the goal is to reach the World Series, but this

Author : Dave Bouchard
Publisher : Raincoast Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Animals
ISBN : 1551920905

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The fable is told in this re-creation of the origins of the Chinese zodiac. The Great Race sets in motion a timeless contest that pits creatures such as the ox, rat, horse and dragon against one another to see who will reach the Jade City first.'