Okie Reads » Children’s books http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads Looking at a little down home literature Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:56:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Duvall and Jacob, beautiful children’s books http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2009/06/22/duvall-and-jacob-beautiful-childrens-books/ http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2009/06/22/duvall-and-jacob-beautiful-childrens-books/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:40:17 +0000 kitty pittman http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/?p=638 The writing and illustrating combination of Deborah Duvall and Murv Jacob have produced some of the most charming folk-tale and  legend children’s books in Oklahoma.  The Grandmother stories are a seven book collection of Cherokee legends. This collection won the Director’s Choice Award at the 2005 Oklahoma Center for the Book Awards. The illustrations are magnificent. They look like intricate woodcuts.

Great Ball Game of the Birds and Animals

The Great Ball Game of the Birds and Animals
Deborah L. Duvall
Murv Jacob , Illustrator
An ancient Cherokee legend, retold with lively dialogue and intriguing illustrations.
$14.95 ( hardcover )  978-0-8263-2913-4
 
How Medicine Came to the People: A Tale of the Ancient Cherokees
Deborah L. Duvall
Murv Jacob , Illustrator
Simply told and magnificently illustrated, this fable is the story of revenge taken by animals against the people that hunt them for hides and food. It details the origins of the Cherokee herbal medicine. With the heightened awareness of the threat of disease and the usefulness of herbal remedies this story will enrich children as well as any adult.
$14.95 ( hardcover )  978-0-8263-3007-9
 
How Rabbit Lost His Tail: A Traditional Cherokee Legend
Deborah L. Duvall
Murv Jacob , Illustrator
In this, the third volume of the Grandmother Stories, Rabbit, whose Cherokee name is Ji-Stu, loses his long tail which is covered with thick, silky fur.
$14.95 ( hardcover )  978-0-8263-3010-9
 
The Opossum’s Tale
Deborah L. Duvall
Murv Jacob , Illustrator
Opossum brags about his tail, but later regrets it.
$15.95 ( hardcover )  978-0-8263-3694-1
 
Rabbit and the Bears
Deborah L. Duvall
Murv Jacob , Illustrator
Instead of gathering food for the winter, Ji-Stu the Rabbit travels with Yona the Bear to Mulberry Place, the high mountain homeland of the bears where the bears have much dancing and celebrations.
$14.95 ( hardcover )  978-0-8263-3131-1
 
Rabbit and the Wolves
Deborah L. Duvall
Murv Jacob , Illustrator
Ji-Stu the Rabbit travels far from home to try to prove he can be a great singer.
$14.95 ( hardcover )  978-0-8263-3563-0
 
Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting: A Traditional Cherokee Legend
Deborah L. Duvall
Murv Jacob , Illustrator
In the fifth Cherokee tale in the Grandmother Stories series, Ji-Stu the Rabbit thinks he has caught the Chief of the Wood Ducks, but soon wonders who caught who?
$14.95 ( hardcover )  978-0-8263-3336-0

 

Then there’s the Rabbit tales, continuing on with Cherokee trickster stories, starring Ji-Stu, as he goes on his many adventures. There’s How Rabbit Lost His Tail and Rabbit and the Well, Rabbit and the Bears, Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting and even Rabbit Goes to Kansas.  

Reading level: grade 4 and up. All can be purchased from the University of New Mexico Press.

If you haven’t seen these books you’re in for quite a treat.         How Rabbit Lost His Tail

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