![]() Don't miss this beautiful picture book, a Caldecott Honor winner Raven, the trickster, wants to give people the gift of light. Raven: A Trickster Tale From The Pacific Northwest is a 1993 childrens picture book told and illustrated by Gerald McDermott using a totemic art style. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001 - Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages. With this orb-the sun-firmly in his grasp, the cunning creature changes back into a bird and soars off whereupon ``Raven threw the sun high in the sky, and it stayed there.'' With this masterfully executed reworking, McDermott adds to the folktale bookshelf a work in the grand tradition. Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest. The doting grandfather, wanting the boy to be happy, commands that Raven-child be given an effulgent ball that he discovers in a shimmering box. His other books include Arrow to the Sun: A Tale from the Pueblo that won the 1975 Caldecott Medal, Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest, another Caldecott Honor Book, and Musicians of the Sun. The trickster sets his plan in motion by being reborn as son to the Sky Chief's daughter. His first book, Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti, was named a Caldecott Honor Book. But can he sneak into the house of the Sky. Raven, the trickster, wants to give people the gift of light. Raven's sadness at seeing men and women living ``in the dark and cold,'' without the warmth of the sun leads him to search out light. Raven (A Trickster Tale From the Pacific Northwest). The illustrations, in striking contrasts, echo the central theme of the birth of the sun by visually leading readers from darkness into light-McDermott adroitly juxtaposes a blurred backdrop of mist-drenched landscape against the sharp, bright colors of Raven himself and the glowing interior of the Sky Chief's domicile. Buy a used copy of Raven : A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest book by Gerald McDermott. ![]() ![]() But can he find out where Sky Chief keeps it And if he does, will he be able to escape without. McDermott's crisply elegant version of a traditional Native American tale resounds with lyrical prose and the stylization of myth. Raven, the trickster, wants to give people the gift of light.
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