Grandmother's Pigeon

by Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa)

Other authorsJim LaMarche (Illustrator)
Magazine (paper), 2021

LCC

Chi PZ7 E72554 Gr 1996

Collection

Children

Description

Passenger pigeon hatchlings, thought to be extinct, are discovered in Grandmother's room after she departs on a voyage to Greenland.

Publication

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2021)

Subjects

Extinct animals Fiction
Grandmothers Fiction
Passenger pigeon Fiction
Pigeons Fiction

Tags

Passenger pigeons--fiction, Extinct animals- Pigeon family (Birds)- Grandmothers- Reading age: 5-9, Grades K-4

Awards

Flicker Tale Award (Nominee — Picture Books — 1997)
Marion Vannett Ridgway Award (Honor — 1997)
Show Me Readers Award (Nominee — 1999)
CCBC Choices (1996)

Similar in this library

The Range Eternal by Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa)
The Good Rainbow Road (2004) by Simon J. Ortiz
Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Thanks to the Animals by Allen Sockabasin
SkySisters by Jan Bourdeau Waboose
23 more
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (2004) by Mo Willems
Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene)
The People Shall Continue by Simon J. Ortiz
Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival by Daniel Pennington
When the Shadbush Blooms by Carla Messinger
Birdsong by Julie Flett (Cree-Métis)
Circle of Wonder: A Native American Christmas Story by N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa)
Between Earth & Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places by Joseph Bruchac
The Forever Sky by Thomas Peacock
Sky Dancers by Connie Ann Kirk
The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (Rosebud Sioux)
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom by Tim Tingle
This Land is My Land by George Littlechild (Plains Cree First Nations)
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons by Joseph Bruchac
Fire Race : A Karuk Coyote Tale About How Fire Came to the People by Jonathan London
The Water Walker by Joanne Robertson (AnishinaabeKwe)
The Warriors by Joseph Bruchac
Indian Shoes by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The Mouse Couple: A Hopi Folktale (1990) by Ekkehart Malotki
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! (2005) by Mo Willems
Chickadee by Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa)
Eagle Song by Joseph Bruchac
Johnny's Pheasant by Cheryl Minnema (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe)

More

Amazon.com
Page: 0.2222 seconds