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Tundra mouse
a storyknife tale
By McDonald, Megan
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-53133-047-0
- Publisher
- New York : Orchard Books, c1997.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1997
K-Gr 3 A multilayered but often confusing tale within a tale. Older sister Elena repeats a family holiday story to her little sister, Lissie, using words, sounds, and "storyknifing," described in the book's foreword as a Yup'ik Eskimo technique of drawing pictures while telling a story. Elena recounts how Tundra Mouse is accidentally picked up in Grandmother's gunnysack and taken into the house, where she meets the House Mouse, who takes her into his own nest. When a huge, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
