A young girl uses her skills as a hunter to avenge her father's death and to escape her evil stepmother.
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From Publishers Weekly
When the Black Death takes Anga's mother, Anga's father, Adiga, marries Unin, an evil, lazy woman who taunts Anga for wanting to hunt instead of learning household chores. After a tiger kills Adiga, Unin's cruelty escalates, culminating in an attempt on Anga's life. Anga escapes, following a moonbeam up to the moon from which she "shines her soft light in the eyes of sleeping children. And if she sees tears in a child's eyes, she kisses them away." Although a hunter and avenger of her father's death, Anga is kind, nurturing and spiritually powerful. Emery Bernhard's (see Reindeer, reviewed below, for another Bernhard collaboration) smooth integration of both these roles makes Anga an estimable heroine, and Durga Bernhard's trademark, subtly embellished gouache illustrations reflect the same thoughtful resolution of opposing themes. Ages 4-8.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 1-4-After the Black Death carries away young Anga's mother, her father takes a new wife so that the child can be taught womanly skills. However, Unin is lazy and demanding, and Anga wants only to be a hunter like her father. When he is killed by a tiger, Unin demands even more of her stepdaughter until, in the way of folktales, Anga's kindness and her father's magical carvings enable her to escape. Stylized gouache paintings in deep earthy colors flow across and around double pages; borders and embellishments are taken from traditional designs of the Amur River region of Siberia. A fine addition to the ever-growing body of multicultural literature.
Virginia Opocensky, formerly at Lincoln City Libraries, NE
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Virginia Opocensky, formerly at Lincoln City Libraries, NE
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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