Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781937054557
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Roadrunner Press
Publication Date: 09-28-2015
Pages: 141
Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years
Series: How I Became a Ghost
About the Author
Tim Tingle is an Oklahoma Choctaw, an award-winning author, and a storyteller who has presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. His great-great-great-grandfather, John Carnes, walked the Trail of Tears in 1835. In 1993, Tingle retraced the Trail to Choctaw homelands in Mississippi and began recording stories of tribal elders. His first book, Walking the Choctaw Road, was the result, and in 2005 it was named Book of the Year in Oklahoma and Alaska. Tingle's first children's book, Crossing Bok Chitto, a Sequoyah Award finalist, garnered more than twenty state and national awards, including Best Children's Book from the American Indian Library Association; it was also a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice title. How I Became a Ghost was inspired by memories of Choctaw elders.