Type: Middle Grade Illustrated Nonfiction
$21.99
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Publication: February 23, 2021
ISBN: 9781646140152
$16.99
Format: Paperback
Publication: June 7, 2022
ISBN: 9781646141517
The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas
Illustrated by Amanda Mijangos
Translated by David Bowles
Batchelder Award Honor
School Library Journal Best of the Year
Kirkus Best of the Year
Booklist Editors’ Choice
Evanston Public Library’s 101 Great Books for Kids
Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best
ABC Group Best Books for Young Readers
“Hypnotizing...Provocative...Disarming” —The New York Times
“Evocative and stirring...mesmerizing to read aloud.” —The Wall Street Journal
Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast.
Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The answers lay in their sacred stories.
Author María García Esperón, illustrator Amanda Mijangos, and translator David Bowles have gifted us a treasure. Their talents have woven this collection of stories from nations and cultures across our two continents—the Sea-Ringed World, as the Aztecs called it—from the edge of Argentina all the way up to Alaska.
PRAISE
Batchelder Award Honor
School Library Journal Best of the Year
Kirkus Best of the Year
Booklist Editors’ Choice
Evanston Public Library’s 101 Great Books for Kids
Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best
ABC Group Best Books for Young Readers
“Hypnotizing...Provocative...Disarming” —The New York Times
“Evocative and stirring...mesmerizing to read aloud.” —The Wall Street Journal
★ “Visually striking...full of vivid language.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)
★ “A rich anthology to understand and delght in Native traditions.” —Booklist (starred)
★ “Begs to be read aloud.” —Kirkus (starred)
★ “Impressive, handsome, and universally appealing.” —Horn Book (starred)
★ “Breathtaking and simply beautiful.”—School Library Journal (starred)
★ “The language sparkles and the tales beg to be read aloud.” —School Library Connection (starred)
“With aplomb, translator and narrator David Bowles delivers a wide-ranging collection of traditional tales from Native cultures across the Americas. This accessible audio anthology is both important and entertaining.”—AudioFile
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About María Garcia Esperón
María García Esperón was born in Mexico City and has won many awards including the Hispanic American Poetry Award for Children. Her novel Dido for Aeneas was selected in 2016 on the IBBY Honour List.
Follow María on Twitter at @MGarciaEsperon.
About Amanda Mijangos
Amanda Mijangos was born in Mexico City and is the founder of the illustration studio Cuarto para las 3. Her work has been recognized with awards several times and in 2017 she was the winner of the VIII Iberoamerica Illustra Catalog.
Follow Amanda on Instagram at @amandamijangos.
About David bowles
David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from South Texas. Among his multiple award-winning books are Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico, and They Call Me Güero. In 2017, David was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.
Follow David on Instagram at @DavidOBowles.
