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- ISBN 9781646143672
- Dimensions: 229 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 12 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Levine Querido
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A laugh-out-loud retelling of Paul Bunyan's tall tales from a distinctly Native American perspective--from Dawn Quigley, the author of the award-winning Jojo Makoons series, and fine artist Chief Lady Bird. You’ve heard those tall tales about that giant lumberjack, Paul Bunyan, his big blue ox named Babe, and his girlfriend, Sally Anne Thunder Anne Whirlwind. How he created the Grand Canyon by dragging his axe, scooped out the hole for Lake Superior, and other feats of incredible strength that supposedly created the American landscape. But you haven’t heard the real story, told by the indigenous people who lived in this so-called wilderness. Now you can! Including the true story of how Paul got his last name!
Dawn Quigley, PhD, is a children's book author and university professor. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. In addition to her debut young adult novel, Apple in the Middle, she is the author of other children's books, including the chapter book series Jojo Makoons. She lives in Minnesota (where there are very looong winters) with her family.
Chief Lady Bird is a Chippewa and Potawatomi artist from Rama First Nation and Moosedeer Point First Nation. She is a council member in Rama and graduated from OCAD University in 2015 with a BFA in drawing and painting and a minor in Indigenous visual culture. Chief Lady Bird's art practice is continuously shape-shifting but is always influenced by her passion for empowering and uplifiting Indigenous folks through the subversion of colonial narratives. She utilizes her social media platform, along with digital illustration, acrylic painting, mixed media portraits, and murals to center contemporary truths and envision Indigneous futurisms by portraying intersectional Indigenous experiences and asserting out presence on stolen land. She hopes that her images can be a catalyst for re-imagining our relationship with the land and one another. She lives in Rama First Nation, Ontario, Canada
