Searching this way and that across the wide, scoured distances outside her cave, the Bone Woman collects the bones she needs to build a creature. Once done, it is a while before her creation stirs, shakes itself, and stands. What will it be? Inspired by creation myths from many desert cultures, words and full-color artwork cast an indelible spell.
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Searching this way and that across the wide, scoured distances outside her cave, the Bone Woman collects the bones she needs to build a creature. Once done, it is a while before her creation stirs, shakes itself, and stands. What will it be? Inspired by creation myths from many desert cultures, words and full-color artwork cast an indelible spell.
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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G. Brian Karas color illustrations. New in New jacket. Book CONDITION: NEW 1999 DK Publishing hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Magical, thoughtful color illustrations by G. Brian Karas. CONTENT: [This book is not for every child-it requires a reader who can appreciate a slow-moving, mystical text and illustrations. IMHO. ] The Bone Woman searches the barren desert for bones to create a wondrous creature, in a story inspired by creation myths from various desert cultures. In a mythic narrative voice accompanied by primitive images, McDonald describes a mysterious old woman who sifts sand to find bones. Readers can almost hear a drumbeat accompaniment to the text: "Like the desert pack rat, / the harvester ant, / Bone Woman lives deep in a cave, / a cave cluttered with bones, bones." Against an off-white chalkiness that suggests a sun-bleached skull, the crone's stooped silhouette seeks tiny bone pieces of long-dead creatures. "Some say Bone Woman brings the dead back to life, " whispers the unseen narrator, who tells how the Bone Woman assembles "spine of snake, skull of lizard.../ claw of badger, / wishbone of owl, / wing bone of bat" into the skeleton of a wolf that, accompanied by Bone Woman's wailing and dancing, is reborn and lopes off into the night. Karas, in a departure from the pencil-cartoon style of Raising Sweetness, takes a minimalist approach to the dreamlike, ceremonial prose. He chooses excessively thick media that could be mud or clay, then shapes it like plaster or marks it with indentations. The illustrations in sandstone brown and pale yellow hues offer nary a hint of plant life, and their heavy, relief-sculpture quality acts as a counterbalance to the text's airy mysticism. Although this tale of death and creation is not attributed to a particular native tradition, the iconic art evokes prehistoric times and adds weight to the storyteller's hypnotic chant. Ages 7+.
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Illustrated by G. Brian Karas. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0789425599. Stiff unmarked book in crisp dust jacket with a pinprick; 10.3 X 9.0 X 0.4 inches; 32 pages.
