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Kessler, Tim

When God Made the Dakotas

32 pp. | Eerdmans | February, 2006 | Trade ISBN 0-8028-5275-0 $17.00
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Paul Morin. In this invented creation story that borrows elements from Native American tradition without explanation or documentation, medicine man Woksape asks the Great Spirit for mountains, forests, and an inland sea but is told that they have been given to other regions. This paean to the landscape of the Dakotas suffers from its stilted, portentous language, but the expansive acrylic paintings are quite handsome.
Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

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