Navajo: Visions and Voices across the Mesa

ISBN

9780590461535

Publisher & Publication Year

Scholastic, 1995

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Author

Shonto Begay (Diné)

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Illustrator

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Synopsis

Summary

This collection of poetry and paintings offers the author and artist’s personal history interwoven with traditional Navajo stories. Begay discusses staying connected to his culture and lifeways while living in modern times and with technology.

Notable Achievements

ALSC Notable Children’s Books, commendation, 1996; CCBC Choices Award, 1995; Notable Books for a Global Society, selection, 1996

Reviews

Publishers Weekly: "With these heartfelt paintings, poems and memoirs, the noted Navajo artist fulfills his stated goal of taking the reader 'into the corners of my world, the Navajo world.'"

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