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He is the man. John Cusack wasn't lying.

This book focused mainly on the importance of the buffalo to the Sioux. We read it with The Sioux (A New True Book) and the information wasn't repetitive. They worked well together. The pictures in this book are illustrations with some actual photographs. The author throws in little sidebars of information not necessarily related to the text, like the names of the months or a brief bio of Crazy Horse. There are some craft ideas as well - a relay race, making pemmican and 'painting on buffalo skin' (coloring on a paper bag). We got into some great discussions on how buffalo were used. My 5-yr-old wasn't satisfied with the five or six examples given in the book - he wanted to know the use of everything. "How about the eyes? What did they do with those? And the nose? How about the feet?" He just wouldn't stop. We had to look some stuff up and guess on others. It was nice to see them engaged and interested even if it was a narrow section of Sioux life. This book won't give you a broad understanding of the people or their history and it's not meant to. If your library has it I think it's worth checking out. There are 8 chapters, but each chapter is two or three pages long and there are lots of pictures. We read it in one sitting.

I loved this book - had to read it again since I read it long ago and had then saw the movie.

Though I first read this story as a seventh grader, I mark it as first read when I was a senior in high school because I think it takes a more mature mind to fully appreciate what Golding is doing in this fascinating story. Most know the plot - a plane of school aged boys crashes on an island and the only adult has died. These boys seek to set up a governing system on the island which begins innocently with rules to help them survive but quickly devolves into anarchy as these young boys are introduced to the intoxicating power to control others. The message, of course, is that power corrupts. This is not a new insight into humanity, but when it is portrayed so vivantly amongst a group of presumably innocent boys, the point is made with even more terrifying results.