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Sequoyah : the Cherokee man who gave his people writing / by James Rumford ; [translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rumford, James, 1948-
- Language:
- Cherokee
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sequoyah, 1770?-1843--Juvenile literature.
- Sequoyah.
- Sequoyah, 1770?-1843.
- Cherokee Indians--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Cherokee Indians.
- Cherokee language--Writing--Juvenile literature.
- Cherokee language.
- Cherokee language--Writing.
- Cherokee language--Alphabet--Juvenile literature.
- Cherokee language--Alphabet.
- Cherokee Indians--Biography.
- Genre:
- Juvenile materials.
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Biographies -- 2004.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004.
- Language Note:
- English and Cherokee.
- Summary:
- While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he tried another approach. The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah taught his six-year-old daughter to read.
- Notes:
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2005.
- Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor, 2005
- Title also in Cherokee.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0618369473
- 9780618369478
- 1415560870
- 9781415560877
- OCLC:
- 54082172
- Publisher Number:
- 9780618369478
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