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  • Published: 8 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9781632898159
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 32

Powwow Day




Now in paperback! In this uplifting, contemporary Native American story, River is recovering from illness and can't dance at the powwow this year. Will she ever dance again?

A heartwarming and hopeful picture book for ages 4-8-year-olds, about traditions, community, and healing.

River is recovering from illness and can't dance at the powwow this year. Will she ever dance again?

A heartwarming and hopeful contemporary Native American picture book for ages 4-8-year-olds about traditions, community, music, and healing, written and illustrated by Indigenous creators.

It's powwow day, and River wants so badly to dance as she does every year. But she can't dance this year as she deals with a serious illness.

In this modern and inspiring Native picture book that's perfect for beginning readers, follow River's journey from feeling isolated after an illness to learning the healing power of community.

Additional information explains the history and functions of powwows, which are commonplace across the United States and Canada and are open to both Native Americans and non-Native visitors. Best-selling and award-winning author Traci Sorell is a member of the Cherokee Nation, and illustrator Madelyn Goodnight is a member of the Chickasaw Nation.

  • Published: 8 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9781632898159
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 32

About the author

Traci Sorell

Best-selling author Traci Sorell writes inclusive, award-winning historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats for young people. She is a two-time Sibert Medal and Orbis Pictus honoree and an award-winning audiobook narrator and producer. Eight of her books have received awards from the American Indian Library Association, including At the Mountain’s Base, Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series and She Persisted: Wilma Mankiller. A former federal Indigenous law attorney and policy advocate, Traci is a Cherokee Nation citizen and first-generation college graduate. She lives within her tribe’s reservation in northeastern Oklahoma.

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