When the buffalo herds fail to appear one spring, a village in the Black Hills of South Dakota finds itself in turmoil: the people grow selfish and the elders lose their authority. But a beautiful woman comes, bearing a message. Only if the people learn to cooperate in the building of a great tipi, will she return with the first peace pipe and the rules of how it must be offered to the earth. Her message delivered, she returns to the hills and is transformed into a white buffalo, which in turn becomes a grazing herd.
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Ages 5-8. The buffalo do not return to a hungry, quarreling village, and two scouts--the bad-tempered Black Knife and the good-natured Blue Cloud--set out to search for them. When the scouts come across a beautiful woman dressed in white, Blue Cloud recognizes that she deserves respect. Black Knife, on the other hand, tries to kidnap her. After vanquishing Black Knife, the woman sends Blue Cloud home with a message about unity and later arrives in Blue Cloud's village with a gift symbolizing harmony--a peace pipe. Taylor's paintings are uneven, but the story is involving, with strong images and actions that make it suitable for reading aloud and storytelling. Information on Oglala Sioux and the place of the peace pipe and the buffalo in the culture is appended, and Taylor specifically references both that information and the sources for her retelling. Janice Del Negro
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About C.J. Taylor’s books:
“Taylor tells the tale with straightforward ease: her paintings, exquisitely evocative of their primeval setting.”
–Kirkus Reviews
“…the story is involving, with strong images and actions that make it suitable for reading aloud and storytelling.”
–Booklist
“Taylor tells the tale with straightforward ease: her paintings, exquisitely evocative of their primeval setting.”
–Kirkus Reviews
“…the story is involving, with strong images and actions that make it suitable for reading aloud and storytelling.”
–Booklist
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