LITTLE BRAVEBIRD & The Grandparents' Gifts - Ashton, Josephine
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Little Bravebird and the Grandparent's Gifts is fiction, and, like the classics, for both children, youth and grown-ups. Its is historical fiction in that there are parallel stories: one that of Little Bravebird's Navaho and French - American grandparents, WWII and the Navaho Code-Talkers and life after that; the other, a coming of age story of their orphaned grandson, Little Bravebird, age 5, who, through struggling with learning, and in particular, reading has an awesome memory and is, in the idiom, "street smart." His grandparents draw on their own life experiences to help him discover…mehr

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Little Bravebird and the Grandparent's Gifts is fiction, and, like the classics, for both children, youth and grown-ups. Its is historical fiction in that there are parallel stories: one that of Little Bravebird's Navaho and French - American grandparents, WWII and the Navaho Code-Talkers and life after that; the other, a coming of age story of their orphaned grandson, Little Bravebird, age 5, who, through struggling with learning, and in particular, reading has an awesome memory and is, in the idiom, "street smart." His grandparents draw on their own life experiences to help him discover "how" he learns, and encourages him with stories of their life experiences, and learning games - from how to catch a fish, to how to ask for help when it is needed. Walk with Little Bravebird through his childhood, and growing up years, until adulthood, when, although his grandparents are gone, the "gifts" they gave him have seen him become both a teacher, a writer, a husband, and, like his grandfather, a warrior. Heartfelt, historical, amusing, sad, tragic, and overcoming. A tale of a New Mexico Pueblo family.
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Josephine Ashton has written poetry, songs, plays, numerous articles for bi-lingual (Spanish-English) community newspapers, books for children, several personal, teaching, or travel journals and three novels for adults. Like Little Bravebird, the three adult novels are set in New Mexico. They too are of the historical fiction genre, but also are mysteries, and are set in two different time frames, one, in the late 1990ies, the other, and its sequel (possibly a series), in 1965. Both feature flashbacks to WWII. One of the stories for children, Clinton's Tree of Life, is a mythical one, a fantasy about a young boy who finds himself being escorted by the human-life-size, Joe Penguin, to Mother Nature's Super Emergency Earth conference. Published by editor-illustrator Tessa Hill, founder/director of Kids for Saving Earth. Ashton, as Claudia Carroll, donated the story to KSE and the book can be found on that organization's web site. The other five stories for children, "Clara Cow and the Country Fair," "Shmadiggle & the Imagination Asteroid," "Old Dumpling & the Rainy Day," and "Missy Mouse & the Rocket Ship, including Little Bravebird, are, currently found at Lulu.com/spotlight/cjcarrollbooks (publisher, cjcarrollpublishing@yahoo.com), as are the books for adults:RIDE THE WILD WIND Book I - Sheriff Robert Gallegos - Friends and Enemies, and the sequel, subtitled "The Witch's Grave" (a possible series) are available at lulu.com/spotlight/josephineashtonbooks. Ms. Ashton can be contacted for book talks at jabooks.nm@yahoo.com or 575 754 0156