AccueilGroupesDiscussionsPlusTendances
Site de recherche
Ce site utilise des cookies pour fournir nos services, optimiser les performances, pour les analyses, et (si vous n'êtes pas connecté) pour les publicités. En utilisant Librarything, vous reconnaissez avoir lu et compris nos conditions générales d'utilisation et de services. Votre utilisation du site et de ses services vaut acceptation de ces conditions et termes.

Résultats trouvés sur Google Books

Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.

Chargement...

The Legend of the Cranberry: A Paleo-Indian Tale (1993)

par Ellin Greene

MembresCritiquesPopularitéÉvaluation moyenneMentions
394631,897 (3.58)3
Retells the Indian legend in which the Great Spirit gave the world the cranberry to remind people of their great battle with the mastodons and woolly mammoths.
Aucun
Chargement...

Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre

Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.

» Voir aussi les 3 mentions

4 sur 4
Summary: This book is about the Legend of the Cranberry which is a Paleo-Indian tale. It's about how certain animals learned to fight each other. There is something to do with a cranberry, obviously.
Opinion: This book was insanely confusing! It was also long and boring. I don't think it's good for kids because I am an intelligent adult and I could barely follow what was happening. ( )
  KelseyGwozdz | Oct 2, 2018 |
I'd never heard of this legend, but it's a very interesting idea. The perspective of the indigenous people dealing with mammoths was really cool to me. It's crazy to imagine living amongst such wild gigantic beasts. We still have Elephants today but in my world I don't have to worry about a stampede during dinner. ( )
  CaputoJohn | Sep 30, 2018 |
Me and my sister who is also a teacher and who I made read this book agree that this is not a great book for children who are too young. Cranberries are called blood berries because of all these yah-qua-whee (mammoth like animals) that the great spirit killed beacuse they were rebelling against people and other animals. A little to gory and too "great spirit" for me to be comfortable reading it to anyone who is young enough to not understand where the story comes from.
  wroesch | Feb 7, 2012 |
The Legend of the Cranberry is a Delaware Indian legend concerning early animals and people. In this legend, mastadons or mammoths were created by The Great Spirit to be used by The People as helpers to carry their goods, to clear forests, and for their food, clothing and tents.

When the creatures rebelled, a great war erupted and many people and animals were trampled into the ground, creating a bog. The next summer, The People saw pink flowers there, followed in the fall by bitter red berries.

The blood-red berries were a gift from the Great Spirit to remind the People of the battle. From that time on the berries were eaten at feasts as a symbol of peace and of the Great Spirit's abiding love for the people.

From the author's note: The source of my retelling is “A Delaware Indian Legend, and the Story of Their Troubles, by Richard C. Adams, published in 1899. The name “Delaware” was used by the early English settlers to identify the native people who lived along the Delaware River. Adams was the great-grandson of William Conner, a white man, and his Delaware Indian wife, Mekinges. His advocacy for the Delawares is related in “The Delaware Indians: A History”, by C. A. Weslager, Rutgers University Press, 1972.

This is a beautifully illustrated children's picture book, sensitive to early peoples and immigrants both. (3.7 stars) ( )
  countrylife | Aug 26, 2011 |
4 sur 4
aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Vous devez vous identifier pour modifier le Partage des connaissances.
Pour plus d'aide, voir la page Aide sur le Partage des connaissances [en anglais].
Titre canonique
Titre original
Titres alternatifs
Date de première publication
Personnes ou personnages
Lieux importants
Évènements importants
Films connexes
Épigraphe
Dédicace
Premiers mots
Citations
Derniers mots
Notice de désambigüisation
Directeur de publication
Courtes éloges de critiques
Langue d'origine
DDC/MDS canonique
LCC canonique

Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes.

Wikipédia en anglais

Aucun

Retells the Indian legend in which the Great Spirit gave the world the cranberry to remind people of their great battle with the mastodons and woolly mammoths.

Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque

Description du livre
Résumé sous forme de haïku

Discussion en cours

Aucun

Couvertures populaires

Vos raccourcis

Évaluation

Moyenne: (3.58)
0.5
1
1.5
2 1
2.5 1
3
3.5
4 3
4.5
5 1

Est-ce vous ?

Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing.

 

À propos | Contact | LibraryThing.com | Respect de la vie privée et règles d'utilisation | Aide/FAQ | Blog | Boutique | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliothèques historiques | Critiques en avant-première | Partage des connaissances | 203,194,626 livres! | Barre supérieure: Toujours visible