Chickadee - Birchbark House

Jacket Description/Back: Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have spent every day side by side and have done everything together since they were born until the day the unthinkable happens and the brothers are separated. Desperate to reunite, Chickadee and his family must travel across new territories, forge unlikely friendships, and experience both unexpected moments of unbearable heartache as well as pure happiness. And through it all, Chickadee has the strength of his namesake, the chickadee, to carry him on. I am only the ChickadeeYet small things have great powerI speak the truth. Launching a new arc in the celebrated Birchbark House series, Chickadee continues the story of one Ojibwe family's journey through one hundred years in America."Review Quotes: PRAISE FOR CHICKADEE: "A beautifully evolving story of an indigenous American family. "--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Review Quotes: The pleasures of reading the series are not unlike those of reading Laura Ingalls Wilder: Discovering an earlier time in our country through stories of the daily lives of children. --Newsday.com"Review Quotes: "In the fourth book in Erdrich's award-winning Birchbark House series, the focus moves to a new generation. As always, the focus is on the way-of-life details as much as the adventure. Most affecting are the descriptions of Makoons' loneliness without his brother."--ALA BooklistReview Quotes: PRAISE FOR CHICKADEE: "In the fourth book in Erdrich's award-winning Birchbark House series, the focus moves to a new generation. As always, the focus is on the way-of-life details as much as the adventure. Most affecting are the descriptions of Makoons' loneliness without his brother."--ALA BooklistReview Quotes: "Readers who loved Omakayas and her family in The Birchbark House (1999) have ample reason to rejoice in this beautifully contstructed sequel ... Hard not to hope for what comes next for this radiant nine-year old."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Review Quotes: "[A] lyrical narrative. Readers will want to follow this family for many seasons to come."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Review Quotes: "Erdrich's captivating tale of four seasons portrays a deep appreciation of our environment, our history, and our Native American sisters and brothers."--School Library JournalReview Quotes: "The Birchbark House establishes its own ground, in the vicinity of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books."--New York Times Book ReviewReview Quotes: "Erdrich's gifts are many, and she has given readers another tale full of rich details of 1850's Ojibwe life, complicated supporting characters, and all the joys and challenges of a girl becoming a woman."--Horn Book (starred review) Review Quotes: GLOWING PRAISE FOR THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE SERIES: "Based on Erdrich's own family history, the mischievous celebration will move readers, and so will the anger and sadness. What is left unspoken is as powerful as the story told."--Booklist (starred review) Review Quotes: Erdrich's charming pencil drawings interspersed throughout and her glossary of Ojibwe terms round out a beautiful offering.--School Library Journal (starred review) Brief Description: In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home. Review Quotes: "Erdrich's storytelling is masterful. Readers will be more than happy to welcome little Chickadee into their hearts."--School Library Journal (starred review) Review Quotes: PRAISE FOR CHICKADEE: "Readers will absorb the history lesson almost by osmosis; their full attention will be riveted on the story. Every detail anticipates readers' interest."--The Horn BookReview Quotes: "Readers will absorb the history lesson almost by osmosis; their full attention will be riveted on the story. Every detail anticipates readers' interest."--The Horn BookReview Quotes: "The pleasures of reading the series are not unlike those of reading Laura Ingalls Wilder: Discovering an earlier time in our country through stories of the daily lives of children."--Newsday.comReview Quotes: Why has no one written this story before?--ALA Booklist (boxed review) Review Quotes: Erdrich s storytelling is masterful. Readers will be more than happy to welcome little Chickadee into their hearts. --School Library Journal (starred review)"Marc Notes: Sequel to: The porcupine year.; In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.; Ages 8-12. Review Quotes: PRAISE FOR CHICKADEE: A beautifully evolving story of an indigenous American family. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Review Quotes: Readers will absorb the history lesson almost by osmosis; their full attention will be riveted on the story. Every detail anticipates readers interest. --The Horn Book"Review Quotes: In the fourth book in Erdrich s award-winning Birchbark House series, the focus moves to a new generation. As always, the focus is on the way-of-life details as much as the adventure. Most affecting are the descriptions of Makoons loneliness without his brother. --ALA Booklist"Review Quotes: GLOWING PRAISE FOR THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE SERIES: Based on Erdrich s own family history, the mischievous celebration will move readers, and so will the anger and sadness. What is left unspoken is as powerful as the story told. --Booklist (starred review)"Review Quotes: [A] lyrical narrative. Readers will want to follow this family for many seasons to come. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Review Quotes: Readers who loved Omakayas and her family in The Birchbark House (1999) have ample reason to rejoice in this beautifully contstructed sequel Hard not to hope for what comes next for this radiant nine-year old. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Review Quotes: Erdrich s charming pencil drawings interspersed throughout and her glossary of Ojibwe terms round out a beautiful offering.--School Library Journal (starred review)"Review Quotes: Erdrich s gifts are many, and she has given readers another tale full of rich details of 1850 s Ojibwe life, complicated supporting characters, and all the joys and challenges of a girl becoming a woman. --Horn Book (starred review)"Review Quotes: The Birchbark House establishes its own ground, in the vicinity of Laura Ingalls Wilder s Little House books. --New York Times Book Review"Review Quotes: Erdrich s captivating tale of four seasons portrays a deep appreciation of our environment, our history, and our Native American sisters and brothers. --School Library Journal"Publisher Marketing: Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Chickadee is the first novel of a new arc in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have done everything together since they were born until the unthinkable happens and the brothers are separated. Desperate to reunite, both Chickadee and his family must travel across new territories, forge unlikely friendships, and experience both unexpected moments of unbearable heartache as well as pure happiness. And through it all, Chickadee has the strength of his namesake, the chickadee, to carry him on. Chickadee continues the story of one Ojibwe family's journey through one hundred years in America. School Library Journal, in a starred review, proclaimed, "Readers will be more than happy to welcome little Chickadee into their hearts."The paperback edition includes additional material, such as an interview with the author and activities." Review Citations:

Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2012 (EAN 9780060577902, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Booklist 08/01/2012 pg. 76 (EAN 9780060577902, Hardcover)

Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2012 pg. 84 (EAN 9780060577902, Hardcover)

School Library Journal 09/01/2012 pg. 143 (EAN 9780060577902, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2013 (EAN 9780060577902, Hardcover)

Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2012 pg. 84 (EAN 9780062190079, Other)

School Library Journal 09/01/2012 pg. 143 (EAN 9780062190079, Other) - *Starred Review

Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2012 pg. 84 (EAN 9780060577919, Library Binding)

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2013 (EAN 9780060577919, Library Binding)

Contributor Bio:  Erdrich, Louise Louise Erdrich is the author of thirteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, short stories, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was a finalist for the National Book Award. Most recently, The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Erdrich lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore that provides a locus for Native intellectual life and exists to nourish and build a community based on books, with a special emphasis on Native American titles. She is an enrolled Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa (a tribe of Ojibwa and Metis peoples).