Description: An account of two boys who are sent by their people to the west to visit the Shiwana, the spirits of rain and snow, and bring back rain to relieve a drought.
Review Quotes: "Ortiz's text, rooted in the rhythms and repetitions of oral storytelling, resonates even when read silently. Lacapa's pictures bring together strongly modeled figures and flat patterned forms, the immediate and the eternal. Both text and pictures are suggestive of the Native American Southwest--but in a way that conveys energy and passion, not historic preservation." The Horn Book