Cloud Eyes - Hardcover

Lasky, Kathryn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152191682 ISBN 13: 9780152191689

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers, 1994

Synopsis

Cloud Eyes, a young dreamer, is the tribe’s only hope for bringing honey back to the lodges of his people. So begins this Native American boy’s quest. Kathryn Lasky’s original story is a joy to read and hear aloud, and Barry Moser’s pencil drawings beautifully evoke the mystery of this enchanting tale.

About this title

About the Author:

KATHRYN LASKY's many books for young people have received such honors as the Parents' Choice Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and a Newbery Honor citation. Her picture books include The Emperor's Old Clothes, illustrated by David Catrow; A Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain, illustrated by Barry Moser; and Marven of the Great North Woods, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. <br>www.xensei.com/users/newfilm/homelsk.htm

From Publishers Weekly:

In language as clear as "the honeybee's sweet gold" and with black-and-white drawings that seem etched with "moon silver," Lasky and Moser spin an imaginative tale about a youth who dances with bears. Cloud Eyes is a dreamer: because he can "find stories in the clouds," he can "see and understand what other people could not." When the bear destroy the honeybees' trees and the honey pots of the people stand empty, Great-grandmother Bee sends Cloud Eyes a vision to teach him the dances of the bears. The resolution of the plot is hazy, as Cloud Eyes ritualistically kills a bear and wears its skin to dance with the bears at night. Later on, the bears become "as calm and gentle as the bees" because they remember Cloud Eyes's dance "as if it were a dance from a dream." Lasky's (Sugaring Time) lyrical story and Moser's (Appalachia) masterful art seem perfectly in tune. The stillness of Moser's compositions, framed in plain tan borders, emphasizes the formal tone of the prose. Ages 5-10.
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About this edition

• Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0152191682
• ISBN 13: 9780152191689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Moser Barry