The beloved and essential Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich includes The Birchbark House, The Game of Silence, The Porcupine Year, Chickadee, and Makoons. With The Birchbark House, award-winning author Louise Erdrichs first novel for young readers, this same slice of history is seen through the eyes of the. Though there are growing numbers of white people encroaching on their land, life continues much as it always has.īut the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever-but that will eventually lead Omakayas to discover her calling.īy turns moving and humorous, this novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a gifted writer. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. In this story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, living on an island in Lake Superior around 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most childrens stories about nineteenth-century Native Americans. This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author.
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