Her Seven Brothers

Goble, Paul

ISBN 10: 0780729900 ISBN 13: 9780780729902

Publisher: Perfection Learning Prebound, 1993

Synopsis

When an Indian girl begins to make clothes beautifully decorated with porcupine quills for seven brothers she has not yet met, her parents believe that unseen powers have spoken to her.

The girl knows she must travel to the north country to find the seven brothers. She comforts her mother by saying, "Soon you will see me again with my brothers; everyone will know and love us!"

In a marvelous way this happens, in this Cheyenne legend of the creation of the Big Dipper.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Goble has received wide acclaim for his magnificent books, including Buffalo Woman, Dream Wolf, Her Seven Brothers, and the winner of the 1979 Caldecott Medal, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Commenting on his work in Beyond the Ridge, Horn Book Magazine said, "striking elements synthesize the graphics with the narrative and spiritual aspects of the text." The New York Times Book Review noted that his technique is "a marriage of authentic design and contemporary artistry, and it succeeds beautifully." Paul Goble's most recent book for Bradbury Press, I Sing for the Animals, was called "a lovely, small book that movingly conveys profound belief in the goodness of creation" by Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal said it "fits as easily in the hand as Goble's meditations about the natural world do in the heart."

About this edition

• Publisher: Perfection Learning Prebound
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0780729900
• ISBN 13: 9780780729902
• Binding: Library Binding