![]() "Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest." The Horn Book Magazine, July-Aug. The naive view suits the simplicity of the scheme, and the mythic elements of the story are masterfully rendered."īush, Margaret A. The Sky Chief's daughter has a pretty, human face, and her squatty figure makes her appear almost as a child next to the more stylized figures of her father and his elders. All scenes are spare and expansive, dominated always by wonderful shadings of light - even in the somber gloom of earth at the outset. Rent Raven: a Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest 1st edition (978-0152024499) today, or search our site for other textbooks by Gerald McDermott. Bold design elements are softened through the use of earth tones. McDermott's economical story line is well shaped and laid out in short lines of text against the fully illustrated, luminous pages. Drawn in the style of totem art, Raven is a striking presence in a cut-out figure of red, green, blue, and black appearing against softly painted gouache landscapes of watery blues and greens. Once allowed to play with the golden ball, the child transforms himself again into Raven, flying off to hang the bright globe in the dark sky. The Sky Chief an his elders lavish attention on the "curious, wonderful child," who is quite cranky until allowed to see into the nested boxes holding the sun. Raven, the trickster, wants to give people the gift of light. "Who do you think the child was?" Gerald McDermott's occasional questions, inserted as a storytelling device, seem a bit inane on the written page but invite the listener into the narrative. Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest. When the girl drank again, she swallowed the pine needle." In time the girl gave birth to a strange-looking child. darkness translation: Definition: no light valley translation. He fell down from the tree and floated on the water. trickster translation: Definition: Someone who tricks or deceives people to get something. ![]() ![]() "Raven changed himself into a pine needle. ![]() "Shape-changing Raven steals the sun from the Sky Chief to light the dark world in this handsome rendering from the fund of lore shared by the Native groups of the northwest coast. McDermott (Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest) continues to mine the rich vein of Native American folklore, here unearthing a lively Zuni tale. ![]()
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