{"product_id":"paul-bunyan-the-invention-of-an-american-legend-isbn-9781662665226","title":"Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend","description":"\u003cb\u003eDid you know that a mainstay of American folk culture was in fact created as an advertising ploy?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew people realize that Paul Bunyan, the legendary lumberjack, and his blue ox are the product of corporate marketing by a highly industrialized commercial enterprise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCartoonist NOAH VAN SCIVER shows us the myth creation as real life marketing man extraordinaire W.B. Laughead spins ever more wondrous tall tales. Van Sciver's story is bracketed by rich contributions from contemporary Native artists and storytellers with a very different connection to the land that the Bunyan myths often conceal. Readers will see how a lumberjack hero, a quintessential American fantasy, captures the imagination but also serves to paper over the seizure of homeland from First Peoples and the laying bare of America's northern forests. It’s a tall tale with deep roots . . . in profit-making!\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eBank Street College of Education's 2024 Best Children's Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA 2024 Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Van Sciver is a master of subtle mockery.\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e★ \"The Paul Bunyan tall tale gets felled.... Readers will come away ready to question what other falsehoods they’ve been fed about the history of marginalized people.... A heightened sense of scale makes Bunyan practically leap of the page in grandeur. An accessible and important reminder of how easily the truth can be coopted.\" \u003cb\u003e— \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A busy, thoughtful presentation that will leave readers with much to ponder about the making of this strand of the American mythos.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Horn Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Enlightening. . . . [A] frank and accessible depiction of the environmental and economic impact of boom-bust industries . . . and how the Bunyan fiction perpetuated these systems.\"\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Offers an opportunity for critical thinking with eye-opening results.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The combined cartoon and folk art styles work well to capture the giant lore of Paul Bunyan [...] A mighty attempt to take on a giant topic of forgotten history.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fast-paced and enjoyable book that captures the cadence and evolution of tall tales in oral history. The bookend contributions by Native authors provide a nuanced and essential critical exploration of the impact of American logging on Native American land.” —\u003cb\u003eSHING YIN KHOR,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Auntie Po\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's so refreshing to see this alternate view of the legend.... An excellent resource for upper elementary school grades.\"—\u003cb\u003eYouth Services Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Logging culture may have produced some great stories. But it also cost America, and especially the indigenous people whose land all those trees once stood on, greatly. Both facts are important parts of our history. Van Sciver’s \u003ci\u003ePaul Bunyan\u003c\/i\u003e tells them both, and he does so in a way that is both potent and fun.\" – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSLJ's Good Comics For Kids\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Logging culture may have produced some great stories. But it also cost America, and especially the indigenous people whose land all those trees once stood on, greatly.... Van Sciver’s \u003ci\u003ePaul Bunya\u003c\/i\u003en tells them both, and he does so in a way that is both potent and fun.\" —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGood Comics for Kids\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The legend of Paul Bunyan and his ox Babe is well-known, but this book goes beyond the typical stories you hear about Paul Bunyan.” — \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eYA Books Central\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoah Van Sciver\u003c\/b\u003e is a multiple award-winning cartoonist who first came to comic readers’ attention with his Eisner-nominated comic book series \u003ci\u003eBlammo\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBest American Comics,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as countless graphic anthologies. Van Sciver was a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eMAD Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and has written and drawn numerous bestselling graphic novels including \u003ci\u003eOne Dirty Tree,\u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eFante Bukowski: Struggling Writer \u003c\/i\u003eseries for Fantagraphics books and \u003ci\u003eJoseph Smith And The Mormons\u003c\/i\u003e for Abrams in 2022. In 2015 he was the Artist in Residence\/fellow at the Center For Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. His books and comics are translated into more than 6 different languages around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarlena Myles \u003c\/b\u003eis a self-taught Native American (Spirit Lake Dakota\/Mohegan\/Muscogee) artist who grew up on her traditional Dakota homelands. Her work includes children’s books, murals, fabrics, and augmented reality. Her fine art has been shown in places like\u003cbr\u003ethe Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Red Cloud Heritage Center, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art, to name a few. She enjoys using the land as a teacher to share with Minnesotans of all backgrounds the Indigenous history of thisplace we all call home. She runs her own Dakota publishing company, Wíyouŋkihipi (We Are Capable) Productions, to create a wider platform that educates and honors the culture, language, and history of Dakota people. She currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLee Francis IV\u003c\/b\u003e is the Executive Director of Native Realities, an Indigenous Imagination organization that seeks to engage and inspire Indigenous youth and communities through pop culture media and culturally dynamic programming. Dr. Francis also founded the Indigenous Comic Con (now IndigiPop Expo) and opened Red Planet Books and Comics, the first Native comic shop in the world, in 2017. He received his Ph.D. in Education from Texas State University and currently resides in North Carolina with his family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Deondre Smiles\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. He is of Ojibwe, Black, and Swedish descent and is a proud citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. Dr. Smiles's interests are many and include Indigenous geographies, human-environment interactions, and Indigenous cultural resource management and preservation. He serves as the principal investigator for the Geographic Indigenous Futures Collaboratory, one of Western Canada’s first Indigenous geographies-focused labs.","brand":"TOON Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299810431205,"sku":"NP9781662665226","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781662665226.jpg?v=1767734558","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/paul-bunyan-the-invention-of-an-american-legend-isbn-9781662665226","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}