A Snake Falls to Earth: Newbery Honor Award Winner
An Indigenous futurist novel about a Lipan Apache girl and a cottonmouth from the spirit world whose paths intersect as monsters, magic, and family pull their worlds together.
作品情報
An Indigenous futurist novel about a Lipan Apache girl and a cottonmouth from the spirit world whose paths intersect as monsters, magic, and family pull their worlds together.
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Levine Querido
- 発売日
- 2021-11-23
- ページ数
- 352ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 3.56 x 21.72 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781646140923
- ISBN-10
- 1646140923
- 価格
- 4443 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Children's Books
NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this breathaking work of Indigenous futurism, Darcie Little Badger weaves an unforgettable tale of monsters, magic, and family. Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She’s always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he’s been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli’s best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven’t been in centuries. And there are some who will kill to keep them apart. BEST OF THE YEAR Minneapolis Star Tribune • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus • Apple Books • New York Public Library • Chicago Public Library • Autostraddle AWARDS NEBULA AWARD WINNER NEWBERY AWARD HONOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD HONOR NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST P R A I S E “A spellbinding tale.” ― Texas Monthly “Genre-bending.”―TIME “Undeniably charming.”―Tor.com ★ “Evokes the timeless feeling of listening to traditional oral storytelling.”― Kirkus (starred) ★ “Fun, imaginative, and deeply immersive, this story will be long in the minds of readers.”― Publishers Weekly (starred) ★ “Magical, stunning, and wholly original.”― Booklist (starred) “A highly descriptive story which absorbs the audience into its world, readers will become invested in reading until the very end."― School Library Connection
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in TIME as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received the Newbery Honor, is an LA Times Book Prize Finalist, and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran.
レビュー
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Great Book!
This is such a good read for any age! Takes you through a fun story that is hard to put down!
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Old legends in a modern world
I found the first half of this book interesting but slow to read. At about the 50 percent mark when the two worlds in the story begin to connect everything cam alive for me. The little girl grown to a teenager is recording tales her great grandma told her.in a strange mixture of two American Indian tribal languages and Spanish. The Spanish is not so hard to figure out but there are no dictionaries for Lipan and the other tribal language but with much research she pieces together the story of animals with human forms. These creatures used to live on earth with regular humans. Something happened and now all the animals with human forms live in a pseudo earth but can travel back to earth for a short time. With great surprise Nina, the girl, welcomes a snake human form named Oli, twin foxes and a hawk named Brightness. They have come to save an nearly extinct species of toad so their friend Eli a tiny dying toad can live. Meanwhile a hurricane is bearing down and about to destroy Grandma's house and property where the toads used to live. Will this strange crew be able to save Grandma and her property and the toads of Texas? A good read and makes you want to hear the continuing adventures of Oli, Risk and Reign the foxes and Brightness and the mockingbird who can shape shift into many different forms.
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Good quality, a bit damaged during delivery.
Nice printing, good quality except for top corners of the book cover was damaged. But it doesn’t effect the book contents.
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creativity embodied (pun intended)!
Giving no spoilers, I can say that the storyline and characters are interwoven with a tapestry of Native American folklore. The author accomplishes this with skill and an easy grace that allows any and all to enjoy the journey. Definitely suitable for readers 11 and older, with no subjects or scenes that should be of concern to a parent. It would be a great story to share with a younger reader (upper elementary or older).
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very sweet story
I bought this because I was confused as to why it was showing up on banned book listings. It's a very sweet story that doesn't have anything in it worth being banned. A good story for kids of any age
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