Enter to win one of two author-signed copies of Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Yuyi Morales (Little Brown, 2016). Obtained from BookPeople. Cynsations sponsored. Eligibility: North America. From the promotional copy:
Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that’s all his own.
Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn’t mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he’s done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder.
But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name…a name that is sure to light up the sky.
National Book Award-winner Sherman Alexie’s lyrical text and Caldecott Honor-winner Yuyi Morales’s striking and beautiful illustrations celebrate the special relationship between father and son.
See below the book trailer, followed by the giveaway entry form. See also Towards a Common Understanding of Native Peoples in the U.S. (or, Why Alexie’s Thunder Boy Jr. Needs a Note to Readers) by Debbie Reese from American Indians in Children’s Literature.
Did you see Sherman Alexie's interview on the Daily Show? I was disappointed with the broadcast version because it started out with a question that implied writing a pb was something "real authors" didn't do. The extended interview on the web included his full answer to that question and made me feel better about the whole thing. http://www.cc.com/video-clips/2agym5/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-exclusive—sherman-alexie-extended-interview
I'm very excited that there's a new pb from a major publisher with a contemporary Native MC, written by a Native author 🙂