Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
Raven, the trickster, wants to give people the gift of light. But can he find out where Sky Chief keeps it? And if he does, will he be able to escape without being discovered? His dream seems impossible, but if anyone can find a way to bring light to the world, wise and clever Raven can! 11 X 9. Full-color illustrations

Author Biography: Gerald Mcdermott is an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator, and the creator of numerous award-winning books and animated films for children. Winner of the Caldecott Medal and two Caldecott Honors, he is also a consultant to the Joseph Campbell Foundation on mythology in education. Mr. McDermott lives in Southern California.

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Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
Raven, the trickster, wants to give people the gift of light. But can he find out where Sky Chief keeps it? And if he does, will he be able to escape without being discovered? His dream seems impossible, but if anyone can find a way to bring light to the world, wise and clever Raven can! 11 X 9. Full-color illustrations

Author Biography: Gerald Mcdermott is an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator, and the creator of numerous award-winning books and animated films for children. Winner of the Caldecott Medal and two Caldecott Honors, he is also a consultant to the Joseph Campbell Foundation on mythology in education. Mr. McDermott lives in Southern California.

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Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest

Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest

Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest

Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest

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Raven, the trickster, wants to give people the gift of light. But can he find out where Sky Chief keeps it? And if he does, will he be able to escape without being discovered? His dream seems impossible, but if anyone can find a way to bring light to the world, wise and clever Raven can! 11 X 9. Full-color illustrations

Author Biography: Gerald Mcdermott is an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator, and the creator of numerous award-winning books and animated films for children. Winner of the Caldecott Medal and two Caldecott Honors, he is also a consultant to the Joseph Campbell Foundation on mythology in education. Mr. McDermott lives in Southern California.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780152024499
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 09/28/2001
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 32
Sales rank: 16,810
Product dimensions: 11.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.12(d)
Lexile: AD380L (what's this?)
Age Range: 4 - 7 Years

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GERALD MCDERMOTT (1941-2012) was an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator and the creator of numerous award-winning books and animated films for children. Winner of the Caldecott Medal and two Caldecott Honors for his picture books, he was also a consultant to the Joseph Campbell Foundation on mythology in education. His acclaimed series of trickster tales consists of Raven (a Caldecott Honor Book), Zomo the Rabbit, Coyote, Jabuti, Pig-Boy, and Monkey, each of which draws from the folktale traditions of a different part of the world. www.geraldmcdermott.com

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star “Amusing and well-conceived.”—School Library Journal
star “Elegant...masterfully executed.”—Publishers Weekly
“Mr. McDermott is not only a picture-book artist of the first rank, but also one of our most gifted retellers of myth and folk tale.”—The New York Times Book Review

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