Ancient Thunder
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A01=Leo Yerxa
Animals
Author_Leo Yerxa
Canada
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Category=YFB
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Horses
Native American
Native Canadian
People & Places
United States
Product details
- ISBN 9781554981274
- Weight: 184g
- Dimensions: 203 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2012
- Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of the Governor General's Award
A beautiful and visionary book, Ancient Thunder celebrates wild horses and the natural world of the prairies. Using an extraordinary technique, Leo Yerxa, an artist of Ojibway ancestry, makes paper look like leather, so that his illustrations seem to be painted on leather shirts. The art is accompanied by a rich song of praise for the wild horses that came to play such an important role in the lives of the First Peoples.
Years in the making, the book is truly a work of art — one that reflects Yerxa's sense of nature and the place of the First Peoples within it.
LEO YERXA (1947–2017) was born on the Little Eagle Reserve in northern Ontario. His first book, Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall, was nominated for a Governor General's Award and won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award, the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award. His book Ancient Thunder was winner of the 2006 Governor General's Award for Illustration.
