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Gr 1-3 Frantz takes on the daunting task of explaining the importance of totem poles to beginning readers. She is most successful when she describes how the poles are made and how they were raised traditionally. To her credit, she shows both historical and contemporary settings. Her description of the place of totem poles in Haida culture is necessarily oversimplified, and her attempt to cover everything in so few pages of limited-vocabulary text results in some sketchy informa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More