Hiawatha and Megissogwon

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. National Geographic Society, $16.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-7922-6676-1

In Hiawatha and Megissogwon an excerpt from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha (1853) illustrator Jeffrey Thompson's combination of scratchboard and computer-generated illustrations appeals to a modern sensibility while preserving the historical flavor. Joseph Bruchac puts Longfellow's poem in the context of its time and clarifies some misleading details in the poem. ( Oct.)

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