He saw the green fields of Kansas and Okla-homa laid waste by Watie's raiding parties, homes gutted, precious corn deliberately uprooted. He learned how it felt never to have enough to eat, to forage for his food or starve. Amid the roar of cannon and the swish of flying grape, Jeff learned what it meant to fight in battle. He was probably the only soldier in the West to see the Civil War from both sides and live to tell about it. Jeff came to know the Watie men only too well. A hero to the rebel, a devil to the Union man, Stand Watie led the Cherokee Indian Nation fearlessly and successfully on savage raids behind the Union lines. In the Indian country south of Kansas there was dread in the air and the name, Stand Watie, was on every tongue. It was 1861 in Linn County, Kansas, and Jeff was elated at the prospect of fighting for the North at last. Jeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road toward Fort Leavenworth on his way to join the Union volunteers.
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble earned Steig the 1970 Caldecott Medal, his first of many Caldecott and Newbery Medal honors. The rest of the story deals with the resulting aftermath: Sylvester's personal attempt to change back into his true self and Mr. Unfortunately, the magic pebble falls off the rock, and Sylvester is unable to revert to his donkey form as the pebble must be in contact with the wish-maker to work. Immediately afterward, a lion scares Sylvester, and as a defense he wishes himself into a rock-the only thing he could think of at the moment. Sylvester Duncan, a young donkey from the fictional community of Oatsdale, collects pebbles "of unusual shape and color." One day he finds a spherical red pebble that grants wishes. The book received the Caldecott Medal in 1970. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble is a children's picture book written and illustrated by William Steig, and published in 1969. She was born in New Zealand and raised in Canada.
Even as their nation contends with and recovers from the effects of war and division, Nigerian lives are also wrecked and lost from taboo and prejudice. But there is a cost to living inside a lie.Īs Edwidge Danticat has made personal the legacy of Haiti's political coming of age, Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees uses one woman's lifetime to examine the ways in which Nigerians continue to struggle toward selfhood. When their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself. They are from different ethnic communities. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Nominated for the 2015 Nigerian Writers Awards (Young Motivational Writer of theĪ New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Nominated for the 2015 NAACP Image Awards (Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction) Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A 2017 Granta's Best of Young American Novelistįinalist for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Prize “I was struck dumb with amazement.” When Carter’s patron, Lord Carnarvon, anxiously asked if Carter could see anything, the stunned archeologist replied, “Yes, wonderful things.”Ĭarter and the Egyptian team had found the lost tomb of Tutankhamun, the boy king of Egypt, who was buried in a small and overlooked tomb in 1323 B.C. “etails of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold, everywhere the glint of gold,” wrote Carter. 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