Powwow's Coming

Linda Boyden

Powwow's coming, hear the beat?
Powwow's coming, dancing feet.
Powwow's coming, hear the drum?
Powwow's coming, everyone!

Frustrated as a schoolteacher not being able to find good instructional materials on American Indians, Linda Boyden has bypassed the tired stereotype of Indians on horseback or hunting game and placed them in today's setting of a powwow.

Powwow's Coming provides children with a foundation for understanding and celebrating the enduring culture and heritage of American Indians. Boyden's exquisite cut-paper collage and engaging poem visually place readers within the scenes of a contemporary Native American community while offering a thoughtful look at powwows and their meanings to the Native participants.

Reading level: kindergarten and up

"A wonderful read-aloud book ideal for introducing young people to Native American culture."--Midwest Book Review

Linda Boyden is a former elementary school teacher and author of The Blue Roses, which was the recipient of Lee and Low Books' first New Voices Award in 2000, the 2003 Paterson Prize in its age category, the Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers' Book of the Year for Children's Literature, 2002-2003, and was included on the prestigious Cooperative Children's Book Center 2003 Choices list of recommended titles. She resides in Redding, California.

10 x 8.5 32 pages 30 color illustrations