Margery Bernstein
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- Obras
- 27
- Miembros
- 159
- Popularidad
- #132,375
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- 2.7
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 45
Co-workers and co-authors Margery Bernstein and Janet Kobrin - two primary school teachers who collaborated on a number of folktale retellings, including How the Sun Made a Promise and Kept It and The First Morning: An African Myth - turn their attention here to the Ojibwe tradition. The narrative of The Summer Maker flows well, being simple enough for younger children, but engaging enough for older. I did find myself (as I so often do) wishing for some sort of attribution, or mention of source, on the authors' part.
Anne Burgess' black and white illustrations are delightful - the snow-encrusted lynx is particularly amusing - with wonderfully expressive faces on all the animals. It's a rather odd choice, on Burgess' part, putting a bookcase full of the works of western literature (Pliny, Homer, Ovid) in the home of a manitou, but if you can look past that, her artwork is charming.… (más)