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The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas by María García Esperón

bickie's review

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4.0

Beautiful book with short (2-3 page) stories from Indigenous Americans, each preceded by a short poem and accompanied by gorgeous illustrations. I found myself finding all the stories from one tradition and reading those together, then another tradition. I went more geographically. I'm not sure how they decided the order in which to put the stories.

Backmatter includes a pronunciation guide, short information about each culture, and a glossary. There is a also a map locating each culture.

darumachan's review against another edition

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informative inspiring fast-paced

3.5

The stories are engaging but relatively short; I felt that I would have gotten more out of each of them if they'd been introduced with a little bit of context about language, culture, and history, especially since this is a multi-cultural collection. 

lolohlex's review

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adventurous informative fast-paced

4.0

katiegrrrl's review

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4.0

2022 YMA Mildred L Batchelder honor

mnstucki's review

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3.0

An intriguing trip through the sacred stories of the indigenous peoples of the American continents, from Argentina to Alaska.

kittykets's review against another edition

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medium-paced

2.75

emco_0's review against another edition

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inspiring relaxing medium-paced

2.5

kfarnocchia's review

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3.0

I really didn't care for how this was organized. And it really should have just stuck to Central and South American Mythology because the North American stories were so rare that it was almost jolting. The flow was just not great.

pearloz's review

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3.0

It's fine, it was fine. There were just too many stories and they started to jumble together for me.

mafeltz's review

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adventurous lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.25

I enjoyed the stories, but would have preferred them being grouped by culture/tradition, and in chronological order within each culture when there is a known order.