The Hero Twins

Name: The Hero Twins
Author: https://www.simonandschuster.net/authors/Jim-Kristofic/240983974
ISBN: 9780826355331

A Navajo-English Story of the Monster Slayers

By Jim Kristofic

Illustrated by Nolan Karras James

LIST PRICE $19.95

About The Book

Told in Navajo, the Diné language, and English, this story exists in many versions, and all demonstrate the importance of thinking, patience, persistence, bravery, and reverence.

About The Author

Jim Kristofic

Jim Kristofic grew up on the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona. He has written for the Navajo Times, Arizona Highways, Native Peoples Magazine, and High Country News. He is the author of Medicine Women: The Story of the First Native American Nursing School and Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life. He lives in Taos, New Mexico.

About The Illustrator

Nolan Karras James

Nolan Karras James is an artist, songwriter, powwow dancer, guitarist, and former rodeo cowboy from Pinon, Arizona. His father is Many Goats Clan and his mother is Apache.

Product Details

Publisher: UNM Press (February 15, 2015)
Length: 52 pages
ISBN13: 9780826355331
Ages: 9 - 11

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Raves and Reviews

This colorfully illustrated tale of two brothers searching for their true father and facing down a fearsome monster teaches how obstacles can be overcome through patience, cooperation, and bravery.--Cowboys & Indians

A thrillingly melodramatic tale kept close to its Navajo roots.--Kirkus Reviews

James's vivid pencils combine elements of geometric Navajo symbolism and iconography with a superheroic comic-book sensibility brought to both the brothers and the terrifying creatures they battle.--Publishers Weekly