Description
Patricia Morris Buckley, Kahnawá:ke Mohawk, is the regional advisor emeritus for SCBWI California: San Diego and taught writing for children for the University of San Diego Extended Studies. A newspaper reporter and editor for many years, she followed her passion for children’s literature to become an elementary school librarian. She is the author of the Step into Reading book First Woman Cherokee Chief: Wilma Pearl Mankiller.
Look to the sky!
High above the ground, generation after generation, Native workers called skywalkers have sculpted city skylines, balancing on narrow beams, facing down terrifying heights and heartbreaking loss. These skywalkers who dared to touch the heavens have built a legacy of landmarks all over the North American continent—and even today, there are Native Americans still climbing up among the clouds, brave enough to walk the sky.
With impactful and illuminating prose, Patricia Morris Buckley tells the soaring story of the remarkable skywalkers, whose bravery and tragedies are warmly captured in moving watercolors by award-winning artist E. B. Lewis, Lenni-Lenape. Audience: Ages 4-8.