Schuett's (Watermelon Wishes) almost operatically expressive paintings seem to push at the margins of pages, making them an excellent match for the text's expansive, boisterous voice. Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom Tim Tingle,, illus. While searching for blackberries, Martha Tom, a young Choctaw, breaks her villages rules against crossing the Bok Chitto. Although the story takes a few pages to pick up a momentum of its own, Tingle (Crossing Bok Chitto), a member of the Choctaw Nation, proves once again that he's a vivid and generous narrator the mesmerizing cadences of oral storytelling transfer seamlessly to the written word. Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom By: Tim Tingle Illustrated by: Jeanne Rorex Bridges Age Level: 6-9 Dramatic, quiet, and warming, this is a story of friendship across cultures in 1800s Mississippi.
Turkey took off in an explosion of dust."" Flabbergasted and humiliated, Rabbit slinks away, suitably chastened for his cockiness. Turkey feigns being a slowpoke as he waddles to the starting line, and then, ""All of a sudden, wings popped out of the turtle shell-long, slow-flapping wings!. Instead, an imposter-Turtle's friend Turkey, who has temporarily slipped inside the reptile's shell-soundly defeats Rabbit. Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom Tingle, Tim, Bridges, Jeanne Rorex on. In this version of the Rabbit and the Turtle fable, slow and steady does not win the race.
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