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Product Details
Aladdin, April 1987
Trade Paperback, 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0689711069
ISBN-13: 9780689711060
Awards and Nominations
- Caldecott Honor Book
- ALA Notable Children's Books
- Horn Book Fanfare
Description
Pieces of broken pots are scattered over the desert hillsides of the Southwest. The Indians there treat them with respect -- "Every piece of clay is a piece of someone's life," they say. And the children try to imagine those lives that took place in the desert they think of as their own.
Clay has its own small voice, and sings. Its song has lasted for thousands of years. And Byrd Baylor's prose-poem as simple and powerful as the clay pots, sings too.
Byrd Baylor's Books
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Everybody Needs a RockEverybody needs a rock -- at least that's the way this particular rock hound feels about it in presenting her own highly individualistic rules for...Read More -
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The Other Way to ListenWhen you know "the other way to listen," you can hear wildflower seeds burst open, you can hear the rocks murmuring, and the hills singing, and it...Read More
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I'm in Charge of CelebrationsFrom the highly acclaimed team of Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall comes the story of a girl who shares her love for desert life as she tells of treasured...Read More
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Desert VoicesOn the hottest summer afternoons when desert creatures look for shade and stay close to the earth and keep their voices low I sit high on a cactus and...Read More
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One Small Blue BeadA band of men sat huddled in a cave Where coals of fire glowed warm and red. Boy lay curled on a bed of leaves But he sat up when an old man...Read More
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The Desert Is TheirsYou may think of the desert as a harsh, dry place where no one would ever want to live -- but think again. The Desert People know. so do the animals....Read More
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