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All Our Relatives: Traditional Native American Thoughts about Nature
Paul Goble
World Wisdom, 2005
Through carefully chosen stories from the olden days and art that meticulously reflects traditional designs and colors, Goble provides wonderful insights into the spiritual life of the Plains Indians. His intimate knowledge of their world transports the reader into a vision of the sacred beauty and wisdom that defined traditional Native America.
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Song Of Creation 3 reviews
Paul Goble
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2004
Loved this book!!!
The book is a slight paraphrase of a prayer from the Liturgy of Hours and from the Common Book of Prayer. This particular prayer is based on the prayer offered to the Lord by Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Old Testament prophetic book of Daniel, after the Lord saved them from death in the fiery furnace.
Of course it's the same over and over again -- it's a liturgical prayer with a ...
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Star Boy 1 review
Aladdin, 1991
Star Boy
These books were purchased for the opening of a new kindergarten on the Pine Ridge (Sioux) Indian Reservation in So. Dakota. I was told by the children's teacher they are thrilled with the books, particularly as the heroes and heroines are children who look the same as they do, show knowledge of the same culture and share the same mythology. Providing these children with a positive self-image ...
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Love Flute (Aladdin Picture Books)3 reviews
Aladdin, 1997
Paul Goble retells the Plains Indian legend of the first courting flute
It has been a while since I have come across a "new" Paul Goble book (meaning one that I have not seen). Usually in one of his illustrated stories taken from the Plains Indian culture you find out the origins of the story and the sources for Goble's attention to detail in his paintings in the back of the book. But for "Love Flute," the explanation comes up front, before the story. This is ...
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Buffalo Woman3 reviews
Aladdin, 1987
Don Imus made my buy this book - I'm glad I did.
I am a faithful listen of Don Imus' show "Imus In The Morning". One morning he was talking about this book and how much his son Wyatt loved it. He started telling the story, but just stopped short of the end. I was so intrigued I ordered one up! The book, although for a child, teaches a valuable lesson about relationships and how strong their bonds can be. I don't have children, but think ...
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The Gift of the Sacred Dog (Reading Rainbow Book)3 reviews
Paul Goble
Aladdin, 1984
Beautifully illustrated Native American tale.
Children and adults will enjoy the colorful illustrations and tale of how the Native Americans acquired the horse. Lovely!
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Her Seven Brothers
Paul Goble
Aladdin, 1993
When an Indian girl begins to make clothes beautifully decorated with porcupine quills for seven brothers she has not yet met, her parents believe that unseen powers have spoken to her. The girl knows she must travel to the north country to find the seven brothers. She comforts her mother by saying, "Soon you will see me again with my brothers; everyone will know and love us!"
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The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses 15 reviews
Aladdin, 1993
The ultimate dream for a girl who loves horses
"The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses" won the Caldecott Award in 1978, the most prestigious award for children's illustrated books. As a children's librarian, I am always curious when I first open a Caldecott winner to see if I can readily identify why the book won the award.
Paul Goble is certainly an artist who sees beauty. He sets his story in the days of the Native American ascendancy on the ...
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The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))
Paul Goble
Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 2001
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Dream Wolf (Aladdin Picture Books)2 reviews
Paul Goble
Aladdin, 1997
Dream Wolf symbolizes trust, hope
Another Native American tale I adore. The brillant rich drawings speak when the words do not. A story of two children who place their trust into a wolf who leads them back to their home and how the wolf is honored for doing so. It is still hopeful that someday we will capture that which has been lost to us. The love of the land and honoring the animals.
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Death Of The Iron Horse1 review
Aladdin, 1993
A moment of triumph
Illustrated by Mr. Goble's usual beautiful pictures, this is the dramatic story of the time that a group of plains Indian warriors fought against the invasion of the "iron horse", or steam train.
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Mystic Horse
HarperCollins, 2003
From the first brilliant rush of horses to the triumphant sight of beautiful bays, chestnuts, shiny blacks, whites, grays, and paints galloping across the pages, Paul Goble's very special book will delight all who love horses and all who love stories that tell of the spiritual connection between people and animals. His magnificent, detailed paintings evoke an almost forgotten world as he recounts a stirring legend based on the oral tradition ...
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Beyond the Ridge6 reviews
Paul Goble
Aladdin, 1993
The Best Book About Loss
Paul Goble's "Beyond the Ridge" is a beautiful, comforting, simple book for children of all ages who have experienced the loss of a loved one. This book is taken from a Native American story about the death of a woman and her journey beyond the ridge into the realm of spirit. Voices call her, and animals guide her, and the familiar scenery nourishes her as she travels home from the mundane world ...
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Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History (Columbia Northwest Classics) 1 review
University of Washington Press, 1999
Fascinating information on ecology in the Northwest
This book is an interesting collection of papers on what the book title calls "environmental history", but what might be better characterized as human-environment interactions, human-ecology, or human-landuse, since that is what most of the essays focus upon. This is a good book for anyone interested in the history of landuse and environmental change in the Northwest. The readings are aimed at ...
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Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters3 reviews
Paul Goble
World Wisdom, 2007
A vivid, outstanding survey of the spiritual and culture meaning of the Native American structure.
Paul Goble's TIPI: HOME OF THE NOMADIC BUFFALO HUNTERS blends traditional insights into tipi construction and development with a retelling of old-timers stories and a blending in of art to make for a fine survey of construction techniques, decorations, cultural meaning, and more. TIPI includes over a hundred color illustrations and drawings and makes for a vivid, outstanding survey of the ...
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The Lost Children: The Boys Who Were Neglected1 review
Aladdin, 1998
A Blackfoot story on the dangers of neglecting children
"The Lost Children: The Boys Who Were Neglected" is a sacred Blackfoot Indian myth retold and illustrated by Paul Goble that serves as a timeless reminder about the dangers of neglecting children. It is, we are told, "a story about the world which is above our world," that was told in the dark in the old days. The premise is that children are given to us by the Great Spirit as God's greatest ...
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Storm Maker's Tipi
Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 2001
In the beginning, when the Great Spirit had made the first man and woman, he told Napi who was his helper: "Stay close to Man and Woman and look after all their needs." Man and Woman had no shelter at that time, but when Storm Maker blew the first winds of winter, they shivered, huddling close to their cooking fire. Napi knew they would need a shelter. While he was thinking about it, a yellow leaf from a cottonwood tree blew onto his head. ...
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Iktomi and the Boulder1 review
Paul Goble
Orchard Books (NY), 1991
Paul Goble begins his stories of Iktomi the trickster
"Iktomi and the Boulder" is the first in a series of stories about the trickster of the Lakota retold and illustrated by Paul Goble. Iktomi (pronounced "eek-toe-me") is the hero, so to speak, of a series of humorous stories. The trickster is a universal character in North American myths and legends, known by different names in different parts of the country. The common denominator is that ...
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The Gospel of the Redman (The Library of Perennial Philosophy. Spiritual Classics Series)4 reviews
Ernest Thompson Seton
World Wisdom, 2005
A "bible" for the spiritually advanced
Alternate title?: "Pocket guide for mystics"
In this little volume, written generations ago by one of the founders of the much-maligned-lately Boy Scouts, we find great wisdom about our relationship with the earth and "God" (whatever you choose to call Him/Her/It.)
Seton was an intense and noted student of American Indians. The very un-PC title's use of Redman reflects his times. ...
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The Legend Of the White Buffalo Woman 1 review
Paul Goble
National Geographic Children's Books, 2002
No personal connection
This book is designed for older readers, because of overall morbid aspect that the book takes. The illistrations are gruesome, and the storyline is not fluid. The story was not relatable without an Indian background.
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