A Picture Book of Sitting Bull (Picture Book Biography) [Library Binding]

David A. Adler (Author), Samuel Byrd (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Picture Book Biography

A brief biography of the Sioux chief who worked to maintain the rights of Native American people and who led the defeat of General Custer at the Little Big Horn in 1876.

Product Details

• Library Binding: 30 pages
• Publisher: Holiday House; 1st edition (September 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823410447
• ISBN-13: 978-0823410446
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,242,295 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I write both fiction and non-fiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later. Of course, since I'll be spending a lot of time with each main character, why not have him or her be someone I like? Andy Russell is based, loosely, on a beloved member of my family. He's fun to write about and the boy who inspired the character is even more fun to know. Cam Jansen is based even more loosely on a classmate of mine in the first grade whom we all envied because we thought he had a photographic memory. Now, especially when my children remind me of some promise they said I made, I really envy Cam's amazing memory. I have really enjoyed writing about Cam Jansen and her many adventures. For my books of non-fiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. My first biography was Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir. To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedia. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there. I've written many other biographies, including books about Martin Luther King, Jr; George Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Helen Keller; Harriet Tubman; Anne Frank; and many others in my Picture Book Biography series. I've been a Yankee and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades so I wrote Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man. It's more the story of his great courage than his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig. I am working now on another book about a courageous man, Janusz Korczak. My book One Yellow Daffodil is fiction, too, but it's based on scores of interviews I did with Holocaust survivors for my books We Remember the Holocaust, Child of the Warsaw Ghetto, The Number on My Grandfather's Arm, and Hiding from the Nazis. The stories I heard were compelling. One Yellow Daffodil is both a look to the past and to the future, and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children. I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books including Fraction Fun, Calculator Riddles, and Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons. In my office I have this sign, "Don't Think. Just Write!" and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, even each sentence or paragraph. For me stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times. And I work with my editors. I look forward to their suggestions, their help in the almost endless rewrite process. Well, it's time to get back to dreaming, and to writing, my dream of a job. David A. Adler is the author of more than 175 children's books, including the Young Cam Jansen series. He lives in Woodmere, New York.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars David Adler does it again, April 20, 2011

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This review is from: A Picture Book of Sitting Bull (Picture Book Biography) (Library Binding)

David Adler writes wonderful history for young people. He tells you all about it, and in this book about Sitting Bull, Samuel Byrd's illustrations show you everything. There is motion on every page - women tan hides, boys race horses, people go to battles and pan for gold, people have visions, people flee the reservation, people die in bloody ways. All the motion on these pages make this a gripping story, in addition to a true one.

This book explains the conflicts between the US Government and the Sioux people, including broken treaties and the reservation policies. It explains how white settlers moved onto Sioux lands and the displacement that caused. It explains the Army policy of containment of the Indians, and when that failed, the move to eliminate native peoples.

Very well done book; honest without being depressing or accusing.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for Elementary Students, February 17, 2003

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Kristen (Pomona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Picture Book of Sitting Bull (Picture Book Biography) (Library Binding)

This is an informational picture book for young students studying Sitting Bull. I would recommend the book for early elementary students learning about Plains Native Americans. The book is also well illustrated.