Barbara J. Atwater

How Raven Got His Crooked Nose is a confusing story about Raven loosing his nose and it being found by a woman who uses it as a tool. The raven turns himself into a human and creates sand people to scare the people out of the village so that he can find his nose. When he does it is worn and crooked, but he still puts it on. The illustrations are confusing and set up like a comic book. Combining that with the fact that the story seemed to leave out important pieces like how the raven lost his beak in the first place made the story confusing even for me as an adult. The tone of the book was cautionary but lost its impact due to the confusion. I will not be using this book in the future.

Alaskan Connection: Raven, Dena’ina, salmon, Alaskan tools
Activity: discuss the importance of patience and doing things correctly… (meer)