This is a good book but the lush illustrations are incredible and not to be missed. They remind me of Mission furniture or Morris wallpaper and a little bit of I have to come back and add it, that one artist who was made into so many prints. Sorry that’s vague, 🙃. It will come to me and I’ll add it. ( )

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor

The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea—to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of readers and writers. The task he set for himself was daunting. Sequoyah knew no English and had no idea how to capture speech on paper. But slowly and painstakingly, ignoring the hoots and jibes of his neighbors and friends, he worked out a system that surprised the Cherokee Nation—and the world of the 1820s—with its beauty and simplicity. James Rumford’s Sequoyah is a poem to celebrate literacy, a song of a people’s struggle to stand tall and proud. (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Award)

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This book is about the Native American Man named Sequoyah who thought that the Cherokee nation would become stronger if he created an alphabet for people to read and write in their language. His writings would become very important to the Cherokee people in the years to come. This book would be great for history or English class. If read in these classes the students could do an activity of maybe writing their own language or creating one. ( )