Author(s): Louise Erdrich
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 244
Publisher: Hyperion
Language: English
Date Published: 2002-06-01
Dimensions: 152 x 226 x 13mm
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
Edition: Reprint
Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified

"[In this] story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, living on an island in Lake Superior around 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most children's stories about nineteenth-century Native Americans. Instead of looking out at 'them' as dangers or curiosities, Erdrich, drawing on her family's history, wants to tell about 'us', from the inside. The Birchbark House establishes its own ground, in the vicinity of Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' books." --The New York Times Book Review