Where the Buffaloes Begin

by Olaf Baker (Author) Stephen Gammell (Illustrator)

Where the Buffaloes Begin
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

"Over the blazing campfires, where the wind moaned eerily through the thickets of juniper and fir, they spoke of it in the Indian tongue--the strange lake to the southward whose waters never rest. And Nawa, the medicine man, who had lived such countless moons that not even the oldest member of his people could remember a time when Nawa was not old, declared that, if only you arrived at the right time, on the right night, you would see the buffaloes rise out of the middle of the lake and come crowding to the shore; for there, he said, was the sacred spot where the buffaloes began."

Ten-year-old Little Wolf, an imaginative and courageous boy, is determined to observe this spectacle, and his quest leads not only to a miraculous vision but also to the salvation of his tribe. This Caldecott Honor picture book and National Book Award nominee was hailed by Booklist as "an eminent picture book and, incidentally, one that proves that black and white can move as forcefully as color." The New York Times praised artist Stephen Gammell for his "spectacular scenes of tumbling clouds, of earth churned by flying hoofs, of teepees in the early dawn. But most of all he conveys the hulking, surging, rampaging strength of the shaggy buffaloes as they rise out of a shadowy mist, the mist of legend or dream."

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Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780486832838
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Dover Publications
Publication date
April 17, 2019
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV016150 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
JUV002000 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | General
JUV012080 - Juvenile Fiction | Legends, Myths, Fables | Native American
Library of Congress categories
Courage
Indians of North America
Bison
National Book Award
Finalist 1982
Caldecott Award
1982

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