Bears Make Rock Soup

and Other Stories
By Lise Erdrich, Lisa Fifield
Paperback: $11.95

In this collection of paintings and stories, painter Lisa Fifield and writer Lise Erdrich honor their Native American tradition in their own unique ways.

Description

In this collection of paintings and stories, painter Lisa Fifield and writer Lise Erdrich honor their Native American tradition in their own unique ways. Together they pay homage to the people, animals, forests, and rivers that have lived in harmony beneath the wide skies of the Plains.

As winter falls, women fill the bellies of hungry bears with sweet stories, so they will sleep till spring. Crows call out a warning of enemy soldiers in pursuit so that a tribe may escape to safety unharmed. An abandoned yearling moose is cared for by children who find him crying for his mother. And animals of all stripes and feathers gather to pay respects to a beloved chief who has fallen defending his people.

About the Creators

Lise Erdrich

Lise Erdrich is a counselor and health educator at the Circle of Nations Indian School in Wahpeton, North Dakota. She is of Native American and German descent and is enrolled in the Turtle Mountain Band of Plains Ojibway. Her grandfather, a tribal leader and historian, encouraged her interest in writing and in the Ojibway language and culture. Lise's writing has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies.

Lisa Fifield

Lisa Fifield is a renowned watercolorist and quiltmaker. She is of Native American and German descent and is enrolled in the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, which is one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Her award-winning artwork expresses her history, culture, and experience as a Native American woman. Lisa's paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.

Paperback

  • ISBN 9780892393008
  • Price $11.95
  • Publication Date Apr 01, 2013
  • Trim Size 8.5 × 10 × 1 in
  • Weight 0.375 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Hardcover

  • ISBN 9780892391721
  • Price $16.95
  • Publication Date Apr 01, 2013
  • Trim Size N/A
  • Weight 0.4375 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Interests

  • Imprint Children's Book Press
  • Audience Children
  • BISAC Category 1 JUV / Science & Nature / General
  • BISAC Category 2 JUV / People & Places / United States / Native American
  • BISAC Category 3 JUV / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Country & Ethnic
  • Themes Animal / Biodiversity / Plant Adaptations, Animals, Cultural Diversity, Earth / Sun / Moon System, Environment / Nature, Families, Fiction, Folktale / Folklore / Traditional Literature, Food, Holidays / Traditions, Home, Identity / Self Esteem / Confidence, Indigenous / First Nations / Native American, Nature / Science
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 8 - 10
  • Grade Range Grades 3 - 5
  • Guided Reading R
  • ATOS Book Level 4.3
  • DRA 40
  • Interest Level Grades 3 - 5
  • Reading Level Grades 3 - 4
  • Bebop Reading Fluent
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