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To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities
To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities
To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities
To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities

To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities

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Mohawk author Patricia Morris Buckley tells the story of the brave skywalkers—Native men who have worked as high steelworkers, building bridges and skyscrapers no matter the dangers—whose exploits are warmly depicted by notable fine artist E. B. Lewis (Lenni Lenape).

 

Look to the sky!

High above the ground, generation after generation, Native workers called skywalkers have sculpted city skylines, balancing on narrow beams and facing down terrifying heights and heartbreaking loss. These skywalkers who dared to touch the heavens have built a legacy of landmarks all over the North American continent—and even today, there are Native Americans still climbing up among the clouds, brave enough to walk the sky.

Patricia Morris Buckley (Kahnawá:ke Mohawk) is the regional advisor emeritus for SCBWI California: San Diego and taught writing for children for the University of San Diego Extended Studies. A newspaper reporter and editor for many years, she followed her passion for children’s literature to become an elementary school librarian. She is the author of the Step into Reading book First Woman Cherokee Chief: Wilma Pearl Mankiller.

E. B. Lewis, award-winning illustrator and fine artist, has illustrated more than seventy-five books for children, including the Caldecott Honor winner Coming on Home Soon. He won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Talkin’ About Bessie and has earned the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award four times. After graduating from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Lewis taught art in public schools for twelve years. He now teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

"By turns solemnly reverent and enthusiastic, Buckley’s elegant text will leave young people keenly aware of the historical and present-day significance of these groundbreaking workers, as well as their strength and resilience. Awe-inspiring." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Graceful language honors skywalkers throughout this stirring telling, while fluidly rendered watercolor illustrations in a desaturated color palette employ sweeping perspective and scale." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This fascinating narrative provides an in-depth history of skywalkers, the Caughnawaga, and their contributions to our cities and infrastructure." -School Library Journal (starred review) "The text, even with all its facts and figures, is deeply emotional, capturing the giddy danger of skywalking, the relentless need to better one’s life, and the sorrow in a preventable tragedy...blurring faces and bodies in a way that emphasizes the comradery and connection between the workers." -Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books "Here, a descendant of one of the 75 workers who died in the 1907 collapse of the Quebec Bridge pays eloquent tribute to the first generation of Mohawk “skywalkers” who came out of the Caughnawaga (later Kahnawà:ke) reserve in Canada." -Booklist
ISBN: 9780063046979 40 pages 11 in H | 8.5 in W | 1 lb Wt

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