publications
Sky Dancers
description
Sky Dancers is a historical fiction picture book, set in the 1930s. John Cloud, a young Mohawk boy, travels off the reservation to New York City one weekend to watch his father work at high steel, building the Empire State Building.
awards • reviews
• "2005 Choices," Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
• 2006 Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College Children's Book Committee
• West Virginia Children's Book Award selection, 2005-06
• Rutgers University project "Top Five" books for teaching children about economics
"Rich, sunlit gouache illustrations establish the 1930s setting for this well-told story of a boy's pride in his father, his people, and—for his newfound ability to hear Father Sky and Mother Earth—himself."
—The Horn Book
". . . a wonderful book...[that] honor[s] those that were integral to the rise of one of the greatest cities in the world."
—George E. Pataki, Governor of New York
• 2006 Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College Children's Book Committee
• West Virginia Children's Book Award selection, 2005-06
• Rutgers University project "Top Five" books for teaching children about economics
"Rich, sunlit gouache illustrations establish the 1930s setting for this well-told story of a boy's pride in his father, his people, and—for his newfound ability to hear Father Sky and Mother Earth—himself."
—The Horn Book
". . . a wonderful book...[that] honor[s] those that were integral to the rise of one of the greatest cities in the world."
—George E. Pataki, Governor of New York
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