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For the Anasazi, life depends on precious rainfall. But after weeks without rain, the land is drying up, and the corn is dying. Soon Sosi's family will have to find a new place to live. Her mother and father are cross and tired as they pack; no one has time for Sosi.

So she runs away, down into the bank of the small pool, and makes a family of mud dolls that dry in the hot sun. Here there is no crying or arguing. The mud father tells his mud daughter, You are my lark, my lizard. I will weave robes for you and never scold. Sosi makes the mud girl dance for rain.

And the rain does come, bringing Sosi back to the family that needs her most of all.

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Paul Morin is a Fitzhenry and Whiteside author.

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"A sweet story, personalizing the lives of a long-ago people.... Paul Morin's strong illustrations are so textural that you can almost feel the paint on the canvas."--The Miami Herald


"A simple text told in simple terms, this first-person narrative...never waivers from its purpose.... The story is lovely and well told, and the illustrations are a stunning complement."--The Bloomsbury Review


"Oil paintings in earth tones on canvas...provide a textured look at the American Southwest setting.... An unusual mixture of an ancient culture and timeless human emotions."--Booklist


"An Anasazi setting imparts freshness and originality to an ageless childhood dilemma: the unappreciative family... James's first-person narration conveys Sosi's conflicted feelings in simple, effective prose, unadorned by melodrama. Morin's finely textured paintings have a 3-D quality."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)


"Told in simple language with thickly textured oil paintings adding atmospheric richness to this story of the interconnectedness of land, water, and people."--Atlanta Journal Constitution


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