A retelling of a Navajo Indian legend in which Turquoise Boy searches for something that will make the Navajo people's lives easier; includes a brief history of the Navajo people and their customs.
Easy-to-read text and full-color photos of giant dirt-moving vehicles invite beginning readers onto a construction site to see the action up close and learn the names of their favorite big machines, from the earth mover to the excavator. Original.
The deaths of her infant brothers, the outbreak of a cholera epidemic on the ship her family took to America from England, and the premature death of her father reinforced Elizabeth's determination to become a doctor