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Ben, a young Navajo boy, tends his family's sheep each summer and, one night, must brave the terrors of the darkness to find a missing lamb. By the author of The Old, Old Man and the Very Little Boy.
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PreSchool-Grade 2-In summertime, when school is out and his parents are busy at the loom and in the garden, it's Ben's job to take care of their sheep. The young Navaho boy and his two dogs take the herd through canyons and across a mesa to "a secret spring: the place where green grass grows." One evening, when a lamb is missing, they search for her and bring her safely home. This quiet story of a young child's responsibility is told in a few well-chosen words. Ben's ethnicity is not pointed out, but his life style, including the Navaho words he counts with, is shared with readers. Equally allusive are the impressionistic paintings, which capture the rugged grandeur of the Southwest canyon country. The shifting moods of shadow and sunlight; canyon and mesa; and cool morning, hot noon, and velvet night are all skillfully brought to life. So, too, are the ruins of an ancient village and the rock paintings nearby. Some young listeners may have to stretch to make connections that are only implied in art and text, but this little jewel of a book provides a unique aesthetic experience that is as true to its culture and place as it is to the universal satisfaction of a job well done.
Carolyn Polese, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Carolyn Polese, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The parable of the shepherd who goes back to find one lost sheep, with a Native American boy as shepherd. Franklin's simple, cadenced retelling (also available in Spanish--ISBN: 0-689-31918- 5) unobtrusively suggests the new setting (``each day in the summer,/when school is out,/when the rains bless the ground,/when Father/digs in the garden/and Mother/weaves in the shade,/Ben leads the sheep/to a place/where green grass grows''). But Kastner's freely rendered oil paintings are the glory of this book; her full-bleed art, in panoramas extending nearly across the broad spreads, draws the reader into luminous canyons and evokes the Southwest's wide horizons; a decorative border with a Navajo motif divides the illustrations from a text that's imposed on the same canvas that gives the art texture--a design that enhances Kastner's best illustrations to date. A highly appropriate transposition for a particularly resonant story. (Picture book. 3-8) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherAtheneum
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 068931809X
- ISBN 13 9780689318092
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorKastner Jill
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