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Keams, Geri

Snail Girl Brings Water: A Navajo Story

32 pp. | Rising | September, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-87358-662-X $$15.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Richard Ziehler-Martin. Navajo storyteller Keams tells one part of the creation/emergence story about how her people came to have drinking water through the efforts of Snail Girl. The story also explains how certain animals came to have their distinctive physical traits. In the garishly colored illustrations, First Woman appears wooden, and the animals are odd-looking combinations of human and animal.
Reviewer: Debbie Reese

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