Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons

Cute story. Great bedtime book.

This has been a great book to introduce my children to Native American stories and beliefs. The stories are short and engaging. They include references to each tribe from whom the story is derived, which my kids thought was really interesting. Definitely recommended.

I purchased this for a baby shower gift, along with some handmade baby/toddler moccasins from the Huron Nation in Canada. If you are looking for some truly American literature, this chapter book for children (and adults!) is awesome. Native American (First Nations in Canada) frequently named the months of the year (figured by moon phases) for the events from that time period of each moon phase. Thus, a month that had a lot of ice storms and ice on the trees' branches may, in some groups, be called "Moon of Crackling Trees," and so on. The names did differ by group, influenced by local cultures and by geography. What this book does is to sample the names of the moons by different groups (one group's name per moon phase) and explain the reasons why a specific group named that moon phase by a particular name. The fun of this book is interest people to explore the full range of names each of the Native Groups gave the moons - this book is a start. It will stimulate people to learn more about each of the Nations/Tribes featured in this book. The Native groups were all diverse, spoke different languages, and had different cultures, so this is a great introduction! The artwork is very good. Turtle in some Native cultures, was believed to carry the earth on her back, hence the name of the book. Wonderful, fun and interesting book - I recommend it!

Book was purchased for my 9-year-old granddaughter who liked it a lot.

a little pricey for what it is, not much to it, hard to call it a book really but good stories and prints so......

Beautiful illustrations, beautiful stories. Keeping the ancient wisdom moving into the hands and hearts of our children. Cross-cultural, this book offers stories from different American Indian cultures about the phases of the moon. I want my children to have a deeper understanding of how as human beings we are interconnected with All Life. Including the moon, which is so interesting and visible to children. This book helps bring a little soul and magic in to my children's thinking about the night sky and the moon.

This lovely book is being added to our neighborhood sharing library. A very nice tale.

The only thing that could of made this book better would be the listing of Moon names of some of the different tribes, in a glossary of chart at the back of the book. You will find teaching ideas that go with this book on line. More advanced students can look up the moon names of some of the other tribes on their own, for the tribes in the area they live. These names vary because the moons are named for the things happening in each different geographical region the tribe is living in. I highly recommend this book as a teaching tool. ( I have taught 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. ) You may wish to check the vocabulary level, before having students try this book on there own, but there is still a great deal you can do with this book, by just reading it to them.

I purchased this story for a birthday gift for a friend. A lovely story and illustrations!

This is a lovely book 13 Native American poems of how each lunar month of the Native American year got its name, nicely illustrated. This is an ideal book for children or adults who like animals and nature, You can imagine families sat in their lodges on winter nights by the fire telling these tales hundreds maybe thousands of years ago.

I love this book

Wonderful addition to the classroom. I had a class very interested in the phases of the moon (after discussing how I can always tell when its a full moon by the behavior ;) ), in addition to teaching First Nations.

This book is a fantastic collection of different Native American stories of the different "Moons." Illustrated by Thomas Locker, a beautiful artist...I will seek out more of his illustrations. Your children or grandchildren will love these classic stories by Joseph Bruchac who touches us all with his wonderful words.