Tim Tingle. Cinco Puntos, $21.95 (328p) ISBN 978-1-935955-69-6
Tingle’s (Walking the Chocktaw Road) novel is set near the end of the 19th century in Skullyville, Okla., a small community of Choctaw Indians. Rose lives with her parents; her brother, Jamey; her grandfather, Amafo; and her grandmother, Pokoni....
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Tim Tingle, Author, Karen Clarkson, Illustrator Cinco Puntos (Consortium, dist.) 17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-933693-67-5
Moving back and forward in time, Tingle (Walking the Choctaw Road) offers a tribute to his grandmother, Mawmaw, in a quietly poetic story about dealing with adversity. As a young woman, Mawmaw moves from Oklahoma’s Choctaw Nation to Texas, where a...
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Tim Tingle, Author, Stacey Schuett, Illustrator August House Publishers $16.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-87483-777-3
In this version of the Rabbit and the Turtle fable, slow and steady does not win the race. Instead, an imposter-Turtle's friend Turkey, who has temporarily slipped inside the reptile's shell-soundly defeats Rabbit. Turkey feigns being a slowpoke as...
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Tim Tingle, Author, Norma Howard, Illustrator Cinco Puntos Press $16.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-938317-74-6
In Walking the Choctaw Road: Stories from Red People Memory, storyteller Tim Tingle shares what it means to be Choctaw through 11 moving tales. His subjects range from the ""Trail of Tears"" to ""Tony Byars,"" one man's account of finding...
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Tim Tingle, Author, Jeanne Rorex Bridges, Illustrator , illus. by Jeanne Rorex Bridges. Cinco Puntos $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-938317-77-7
Bridges, a Cherokee artist making her children's book debut, joins Tingle (Walking the Choctaw Road
) in a moving and wholly original story about the intersection of cultures. The river Bok Chitto divides the Choctaw nation from the plantations...
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Tim Tingle. Tu, $20.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-62014-823-5
Tingle, an Oklahoma Choctaw, expands on his 2006 picture book Crossing Bok Chitto in this immersive tale of the friendship between people on opposite sides of the Bok Chitto River in 1808. Based on oral histories of Native Americans helping enslaved
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