Author : Kathy-jo Wargin
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1627531815
The fantastic Legend team of Kathy-jo Wargin and Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen have another beautiful book to add to the Sleeping Bear and Mackinac Island stories. A Grandmother's love for her grandchildren is magically portrayed in "The Legend of the Loon". A perfect addition to your collection, this book remains true to the heartwarming qualities you've come to expect from these legendary storytellers.
Author : Christopher Big Plume
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1525530933
If you’ve ever heard it, you know that Loons have a very distinctive call like no other bird. Their calls echo over many hundreds of Canada’s lakes in spring, summer and fall. But, if you’ve ever seen a loon, you’ll know that they also have very special markings like no other bird. The Secret of the Loon’s Necklace is the traditional Indigenous legend of how the loons got their special neck and back markings. It is the story of old Kelora, a self-proclaimed medicine man who is almost blind. Mocked by almost his whole tribe, he proves that there is still magic in the land of humans and animals. He also proves that being old doesn’t mean you can’t use that magic to help your family and community. The old and those with disabilities, too, have value in our communities. His story shows how much more we can achieve when we work together and respect each other.
Author : Kathy-jo Wargin
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1627531793
It started with a mother's love... Fleeing from a forest fire, a mother bear urges her two cubs into the watery shelter of a vast body of water. Though it will be difficult, she knows if they can swim across to the opposite shore, they will be safe. With calls of encouragement and steadfast love, Mother Bear guides her cubs across the great lake, Lake Michigan. And the story of what happens once Mother Bear reaches the far shore becomes the legend behind the natural wonder known as Sleeping Bear Dune. In 1998 writer Kathy-jo Wargin and nature artist Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen combined their talents to bring The Legend of Sleeping Bear to life. Published to wide acclaim, the book was soon named the Official Children's Book of Michigan.
Author : Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 9781927095508
Raven and Loon make beautiful coloured coats for one another, but things do not go as planned.
Author : Kathy-jo Wargin
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1627531416
The sixth tale in our Legend series, The Legend of the Petoskey Stone focuses on the naming of this unique fossil, found only on the shores of Lake Michigan. From the ancient, warm sea that covered most of the state, through Native American history and the history of the town named after a great chief, The Legend of the Petoskey Stone is a welcome addition to the fables so richly told and illustrated by this much-loved and honored children's book team.Author Kathy-jo Wargin has earned national acclaim through award-winning children's classics such as Michigan's official state book, The Legend of Sleeping Bear, Children's Choice Award winner The Legend of the Loon, The Edmund Fitzgerald: Song of the Bell, and many others. Kathy-jo enjoys writing about nature and its effect on all our lives, and is a frequent guest speaker throughout the country. She is also a faculty member of the Bear River Writers Workshop, sponsored by the University of Michigan. She lives in Petoskey, Michigan. Since the publication of The Legend of Sleeping Bear, artist Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen has been an established presence in the world of children's book illustration. His many other titles with Sleeping Bear Press include The Edmund Fitzgerald: Song of the Bell, Adopted by an Owl, Jam & Jelly by Holly & Nellie, and The Legend of Leelanau. Gijsbert and his family live in Bath, Michigan.
Author : Elizabeth Cleaver
Publisher : Demco Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780606044707
A Canadian Indian tale about an old blind man whose sight is restored with the help of a magical loon is interpreted through the collage artwork of a noted illustrator.
Author : Kathy-jo Wargin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9781585365173
Retells the story of the great turtle Makinauk that enlists the aid of other animals to help create the special place known as Mackinac Island.
Author : Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Publisher : Inhabit Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781927095577
Presents a traditional Inuit origin story of how the narwhal came to exist.
Author : Richard Amory
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551523175
“More completely than any author before him, Richard Amory explores the tormented world of love for man by man . . . a happy amalgam of James Fenimore Cooper, Jean Genet and Hudson’s Green Mansions.”—from the cover copy of the 1969 edition Published well ahead of its time, in 1966 by Greenleaf Classics, Song of the Loon is a romantic novel that tells the story of Ephraim MacIver and his travels through the wilderness. Along his journey, he meets a number of characters who share with him stories, wisdom and homosexual encounters. The most popular erotic gay book of the 1960s and 1970s, Song of the Loon was the inspiration for two sequels, a 1970 film of the same name, at least one porn movie and a parody novel called Fruit of the Loon. Unique among pulp novels of the time, the gay characters in Song of the Loon are strong and romantically drawn, which has earned the book a place in the canon of gay American literature. With an introduction by Michael Bronski, editor of Pulp Friction and author of The Pleasure Principle. Little Sister’s Classics is a new series of books from Arsenal Pulp Press, reviving lost and out-of-print gay and lesbian classic books, both fiction and nonfiction. The books in the series are produced in conjunction with Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium, the heroic Vancouver bookstore well-known for its anti-censorship efforts.
Author : Craig Mishler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1496210107
The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is magically restored by a kind loon. Variations of this tale are told by Native storytellers all across Alaska, arctic Canada, Greenland, the Northwest Coast, and even into the Great Basin and the Great Plains. As the story has traveled through cultures and ecosystems over many centuries, individual storytellers have added cultural and local ecological details to the tale, creating countless variations. In The Blind Man and the Loon: The Story of a Tale, folklorist Craig Mishler goes back to 1827, tracing the story's emergence across Greenland and North America in manuscripts, books, and in the visual arts and other media such as film, music, and dance theater. Examining and comparing the story's variants and permutations across cultures in detail, Mishler brings the individual storyteller into his analysis of how the tale changed over time, considering how storytellers and the oral tradition function within various societies. Two maps unequivocally demonstrate the routes the story has traveled. The result is a masterful compilation and analysis of Native oral traditions that sheds light on how folktales spread and are adapted by widely diverse cultures.
