Sky dancers / by Connie Ann Kirk ; illustrated by Christy Hale.

Kirk, Connie Ann, (author.). Hale, Christy, (illustrator.).

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General Note:	MN American Indian literature.
Summary, etc.:	John Cloud, a Mohawk boy, lives in upstate New York, but he goes to visit his father who is working on the Empire State Building.

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Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2004 November #2
Gr. 1-3. In her first work of fiction for children, Kirk introduces the generations-old connection between the Mohawk people and steelworking. John Cloud, who lives on a reservation, misses his father and uncle during their weeks working construction sites in Manhattan. John's first visit to the city brings both strange sights ("There were traffic lights where John thought trees should be") and deepening pride when he witnesses his father's agile figure high atop the incomplete Empire State Building. Hale's boldly stroked, assertively colored paintings aren't as expressive as her mixed-media contributions to Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen's Elizabeti's Doll (1998), but children will thrill to her images of the "sky dancers" casually strolling along the narrow beams, the city spread dizzyingly below. This will work nicely to extend children's understanding of Native American traditions, and Kirk's carefully phrased author's note provides clear-eyed background on how members of this particular group came to be disproportionately represented in such a spine-tingling line of work. ((Reviewed November 15, 2004)) Copyright 2004 Booklist Reviews.

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