What am I?
[written and illustrated] by Mary Neel Green
After being caught in a trap by pygmies in an African forest, a young animal that they call a donkey learns that he is really an okapi.
Read Time: ~5.7 hr
Sorrow's knot
by Erin Bow (2013)
About this book
Otter is a girl of the Shadowed People, a tribe of women, and she is born to be a binder, a woman whose power it is to tie the knots that bind the dead--but she is also destined to remake her world. Otter is a girl of the Shadowed People, a tribe of women, and she is born to be a binder, a woman whose power it is to tie the knots that bind the dead, but she is also destined to remake her world.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreSorrow's knot Lead Character
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