Indian Shoes
CCBC Review:
An excellent collection of interrelated short stories will appeal to newly independent young readers. Young Ray Halfmoon lives with his grandpa in Chicago. In each chapter author Cynthia Leitich Smith places Ray and Grandpa into a believable adventure with a manageable challenge: summer fishing, baseball team, lonely holiday situation, contest, etc. Because her main characters have a Seminole-Cherokee heritage, the author has woven important Native cultural details into a narrative full of warmth and humor. Her adroit uses of colloquial language also earmark this fine collection of brief contemporary fiction. Smith herself lives in Texas, and is a mixed blood, enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. ©2002 Cooperative Children's Book Center
Illustrated by Jim Madsen
CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 6-9
Age Range:
PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7)
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-10)
Formats:
Novel
Short Stories
Subjects:
Cherokee People
City Life
First/Native Nations
Grandfathers
Humor
Seminole People
Diversity subject:
Indigenous
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Publish Year: 2002
Pages: 66
ISBN: 0060295317
CCBC Location: Fiction, Smith