A Picture Book of Sitting Bull

Picture Book Biography

by David A. Adler, Samuel Byrd (Illustrator)

A pictorial biography of the leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux describes how, as whites encroached on Sioux territory, Sitting Bull defended his people and refused to give up land or live on a reservation.

Genres: Biography, History, Picture Books, Childrens, Nonfiction

30 pages, Library Binding

First published September 1, 1993

About the author

David Abraham Adler is an American children's author. He was born in New York City, New York in 1947. He graduated from Queens College in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics and education. For the next nine years, he worked as a mathematics teacher for the New York City Board of Education, while taking classes towards a master's degree in marketing, a degree he was awarded by New York University in 1971. In that same year, a question from his then-three-year-old nephew inspired Adler to write his first story, A Little at a Time, subsequently published by Random House in 1976. Adler's next project, a series of math books, drew on his experience as a math teacher. In 1977, he created his most famous character, Cam Jansen, originally featured in Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds, which was published that year.

Adler married psychologist Renee Hamada in 1973, and their first child, Michael, was born in 1977. By that time Adler had taken a break from teaching and, while his wife continued her work, he stayed home, took care of Michael, and began a full-time writing career.

Adler's son, Michael S. Adler, is now the co-author of several books with his father, including A Picture Book of Sam Adams, A Picture Book of John Hancock, and A Picture Book of James and Dolly Madison. Another son, Edward, was the inspiration for Adler's Andy Russell series, with the events described in the series loosely based on adventures the Adler family had with Edward's enthusiasm and his pets.

As of November 2008, Adler has three sons and two grandsons. He lives in Woodmere, New York.

(source: Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Prabhat sharma · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Picture Book of Sitting Bull by David A. Adler, Illustrations by Samuel, Hindi language translation by Vidushak- Children’s Illustrated Colour Picture Book- The book narrates the story of the Sioux Tribal Chief Native American who worked to maintain the rights of Native American people. He led the defeat of Lt Col George Armstrong on 25 June, 1876. (1) Big Bull was born in 1831 on the banks of Grand River, USA. (2) Native Americans ate wild buffalo meat. They killed only so many wild buffaloes only as were necessary for food. (3) All parts of the wild buffalo’s body were used by them. Its skin was used to construct tents, hair and horns were used. (4) Pioneers arrived and claimed the Native American land. Native Americans fought with them. (5) Pioneers killed all possible visible wild buffaloes. Thus, there was lack of food for Native Americans, (6) Lack of food and proximity of Pioneers, disease spread among the natives. (7) Natives refused to reside in the Reserved Area and deliver the rest of their land to US Government. (8) Big Bull was arrested on 15 December, 1880, (9) In 1888, a peace treaty was signed between Americans and the Native Americans but as the Americans thought that the inner area contained gold mines, they broke the treaty. (10) In 1877, Sitting Bull on finding that food was short, took his tribal to Canada but in Canada winter was strong and he had to return back with his men. (11) by 1890, all Americans Native Tribals were executed in the war. Coloured pictures help the reader to relate to the story. I have read the Hindi language translation of this book.

[Marita · Rating 3 out of 5]

Learned quite a bit from this little book.