Books by Brian Swann and Complete Book Reviews
Brian Swann, Author, Ashley Bryan, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200805-5
Like his earlier Touching the Distance: Native American Riddle-Poems, these original, laconic verses are based on Swann's collection of riddles, but this time they hail from Africa. One of the more successful riddles, ""I have a house/ that has no...
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Brian Swann, Author Random House (NY) $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-41816-0
Swann (Smoothing the Ground: Essays on Native American Oral Literature) provides a solid entree to American Indian mythology in this mammoth, sweeping volume. Focusing on the oral tradition, he has collected new translations of more than 50 ancient...
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Brian Swann, Author, Ponder Goembel, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $14.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-08334-5
What goes ""through the valley/ slapping palms together/ like the women in town/ who are making tortillas''? The answer to this Aztec riddle about a butterfly is found in the splendid illustration of women in the marketplace whose hands flutter and...
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