The Lost Children: The Boys Who Were Neglected

by Paul Goble, Paul Goble (Illustrator)

Overview

Paul Goble's The Lost Children is based on Blackfoot Native American myth, this tale movingly reminds us that all children are sacred.

Six orphaned brothers, neglected by their people and taunted by their peers, abandon the earth for the Above World where they become the constellation known as the Pleiades.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780027365559
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Publication date:	03/31/1993
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	7.75(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	570L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Paul Goble has received wide acclaim for his magnificent books, including Buffalo Woman, Dream Wolf, Her Seven Brothers, and the winner of the 1979 Caldecott Medal, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Commenting on his work in Beyond the Ridge, Horn Book Magazine said, "striking elements synthesize the graphics with the narrative and spiritual aspects of the text." The New York Times Book Review noted that his technique is "a marriage of authentic design and contemporary artistry, and it succeeds beautifully." Paul Goble's most recent book for Bradbury Press, I Sing for the Animals, was called "a lovely, small book that movingly conveys profound belief in the goodness of creation" by Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal said it "fits as easily in the hand as Goble's meditations about the natural world do in the heart."

Paul Goble has received wide acclaim for his magnificent books, including Buffalo Woman, Dream Wolf, Her Seven Brothers, and the winner of the 1979 Caldecott Medal, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Commenting on his work in Beyond the Ridge, Horn Book Magazine said, "striking elements synthesize the graphics with the narrative and spiritual aspects of the text." The New York Times Book Review noted that his technique is "a marriage of authentic design and contemporary artistry, and it succeeds beautifully." Paul Goble's most recent book for Bradbury Press, I Sing for the Animals, was called "a lovely, small book that movingly conveys profound belief in the goodness of creation" by Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal said it "fits as easily in the hand as Goble's meditations about the natural world do in the heart."

Editorial Reviews

Goble retells a Blackfoot Indian myth about six orphans who live on the fringe of their tribe, befriended by the camp dogs, scorned by the children, and barely tolerated by the adults. Saddened by the tribe's unkindness, the orphans decide to become stars. When they ascend to the Sun Man and Moon Woman's tepee they tell of the unkindness. Sun Man angrily causes a drought, but relents when the leader of the dogs cries out for rain. So they will always be together, the orphans become the star cluster we call the Pleiades. With Goble's signature style of crisp lines, clear colors, and bright, white backgrounds, the artwork clearly sets the tale within the native American culture, yet the inclusion of modern telephone poles and cars in the last scene indicates that the message of the myth has relevance today, speaking to any culture that fails to care for all its children. Source notes and a discussion of Blackfoot tepee painting fill in readers' knowledge of the tale and the illustrations. Vintage Goble.

Carolyn Phelan