Pub Date: April 29, 2025
Dewey: 811.54
Lexile Code: 0730
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 04 to 08
Physical Info: 0.42" H x 12.17" L x 9.40" W ( 1.20 lbs) 40 pages
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Description: From United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and Pura Belpré Award-winning illustrator Adriana Garcia: a luminous benediction for a girl's journey through life, and a celebration of our connections to the world around us.
Brief description: Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America's 2024 Frost Medal, Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal. Harjo has released seven award-winning albums and is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she lives.
Review Quotes: The swirling linework feels like connective tissue unifying the illustrations and accentuating the poetic text. Each spread celebrates Native cultural identity and brings form to the metaphysical. VERDICT A stunningly written and illustrated work of children's literature, and an essential purchase for school and public library collections.-- "School Library Journal (starred review)"