Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (559 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555917240 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kayla Cange said Beautiful and Engaging for kids. While studying Native American folktales, my fourth graders were enraptured with the graphic novel style of this book!. Five Stars I'm Native American, wanted to read books that reference my heritage. Tricksy This year I helped a committee come up with the 100 best books for children. This list has been produced for a while and each year we make sure to include a folk and fairytale section. The problem? With each passing year publishers produce less and less folk and fairytales for kids. In the past this was a serious c
The first graphic anthology of Native American trickster tales, Trickster brings together Native American folklore and the world of comics. In Trickster, 24 Native storytellers were paired with 24 comic artists, telling cultural tales from across America. In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from coyote or rabbit to raccoon or raven. 2010 Maverick Award winner, 2011 Aesop Prize Winner – Children’s folklore section, and a 2011 Eisner Award Nominee. All cultures have tales of the trickster – a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. Ranging from serious and dramatic to funny and sometimes downright fiendish, these tales bring tricksters back into popular culture. . He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself
From Publishers Weekly These 21 folktales, created by pairing Native storytellers with a variety of artists, feature creatures explaining how things came to be, like islands or stars, or animals playing tricks on one another. . Often, the trickster, while trying to take the lazy way, outwits himself, especially when it involves Coyote. Micah Farritor's art in Coyote and the Pebbles and Dembicki's in Azban (Raccoon) and the Crayfish are standouts in their animal images. All rights reserved. (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Many of the stories, some of which involve tribespeople as well as animals, are told through captions, as though listening to an elder and envisioning the images he describes. The short collection of contributor bios at the end is a helpful resource for finding more about the artist's credits or