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Lasky, Kathryn

First Painter

40 pp. | DK Ink/Kroupa | September, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-7894-2578-5 $$16.95
(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Rocco Baviera. Mishoo, a prehistoric girl, became her clan's Dream Catcher after her mother's death. During a drought, she is drawn to the cave of the she-tiger and inspired to create paintings on its walls. The wordy prose is occasionally awkward ("I crawl through a tunnel for the lengths of more hunting men than my hands have fingers"), but the deep-toned illustrations re-creating cave paintings are evocative.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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