The People of Twelve Thousand Winters
Illustrator
Jim Madsen
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Publication Year
2012
ISBN
9781585365296
Pages
32 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Ten-year-old Walking Turtle, of the Lenni-Lenape tribe, is close to his younger cousin, Little Talk, who has difficulty walking and worries about what will become of him when the time comes for Walking Turtle to leave his childhood friends to begin training at warrior school.
Grade Level
K-3; 3-5
Diversity Topics
Disability and Health; Physical disability; crooked foot
Main Character
male teeanger
Race/Ethnicities
Native American (Lenni Lenape)
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Parents' Choice Award, 2012, Recommended, Picture Book
Keywords
warriors; nature; cooking; seasons; strength; caretaker; tribe
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Noble, Trinka Hakes, "The People of Twelve Thousand Winters" (2012). Diverse Families. 1650.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1650