New American Indian Children's Book, The Thunder Egg, by Wisdom Tales Press

 
 
Thunder Egg
Thunder Egg
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - June 26, 2015 - PRLog -- Join us for the exciting story of a brave young
Cheyenne girl who helps her people


A terrible drought was threatening to wipe out Stands-by-Herself’s Cheyenne people. One day, all alone on the Great Plains, she came upon a strange egg-shaped rock, and took it home. “That looks like a thunder egg!” her grandmother said. Laid by the great Thunderbird’s wife, could Stands-by-Herself’s mysterious rock hold the key to her people’s survival?

The Thunder Egg is the story of a young girl's relalization that life often asks us to think of others before ourselves, and to follow our hearts even when that path is difficult.

This Book Features

* An Afterword by the author, informative Notes on the Illustrations, and a Bibliography

* Vibrant images of Plains Indian life in the unspoiled West.Carefully researched text and paintings, which bring a true authenticity to the time, place, and people of the story

Publication Details
ISBN: 978-1-937786-39-7
Pub Date: July 2015
Price: $15.95
Trim Size: 7.125 x 10.25
Page Count: 28 hardcover
Ages: 5 and up


“An original tale based in folklore about a Native American girl’s willingness to help her [Cheyenne] people through the power of a mysterious stone. . . . The author builds an affecting story that centers on his Native American protagonist and her love for her people. . . . The soft, pastel-hued pencil illustrations evoke the pre-Colonial Plains and its peoples; unusually detailed notes provide further information in the backmatter (Picture book. 6-8).”
—Kirkus Reviews

“What a great story, and indeed how very good it is to see illustrations which are painted with real knowledge and love for the nomadic peoples who lived on the Great Plains. Aho - aho!”

—Paul Goble, Caldecott-medal-winning author and illustrator of The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

About the Author
Tim J. Myers is an author who has published fifteen books for children and four for adults. Myers is also an artist, poet, songwriter, storyteller, and professor of English at Santa Clara University, CA. His other books include Down at the Dino Wash Deluxe, If You Give a T-Rex a Bone, The Out-Foxed Fox, The Furry-Legged Teapot, and Glad to Be Dad: A Call to Fatherhood, which won the inaugural Ben Franklin Digital Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association. Tim has also published two books of poems and won a first place in a national poetry contest judged by John Updike. One of Tim’s songs, “When Lady Smiled at Me,” won the Dan Howell Song of the Year for the Saratoga chapter of the West Coast Songwriters, sending him to the Grand Finals at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley. He lives in Santa Clara, CA.

About the Illustrator
Winfield Coleman is an illustrator and painter, writer and editor, lecturer and ethnological researcher who has worked on books, museum catalogs, and research materials on native peoples and their art for over forty years. He received a B.A. in Anthropology from Cornell University and continued his anthropological studies as a graduate student at Harvard. Coleman later received an M.A. in Fine Arts from New York University. After this, he continued researching Plains Indian art and religion, in which he was supported by two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has done archeological and ethnographic research with indigenous peoples in the United States (including Alaska), Mexico, Canada, Peru, and Borneo. Winfield has also spent extended periods doing archival research in many of the great museums of the United States, including the Smithsonian Institution and the Field Museum, and has worked for several museums and galleries specializing in tribal art. He continues to pass on his vast store of knowledge as a guest lecturer at various conferences, universities, libraries, museums, and historical centers. Winfield’s work, American Indian Horse Masks (written by Ned and Jody Martin), received the prestigious George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award for excellence in art publishing. He lives in San Francisco, CA.

Contact
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