Kami and the Yaks by Andrea Stenn Stryer and Bert Dodson, ill. Palo Alto, CA:  Bay Otter Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9778961-0-3

A young mute Sherpa boy discovers he is capable of standing on his own as he saves the family Yak’s in a storm.

Media:  Watercolor

Q5/P4

5-6^th

Curricular Connection:  Level 5-8^th.  Language Arts, Art, Geography.

Literary Devices:  The author uses Simile in the passage, “The other side was now as slippery as yak butter.”

    Artwork:  A large and beautiful picture book painted with watercolor.  The vivid illustrations carry the reader to the Himlaya’s, convey Kami’s silence, and his isolation on the mountainous terrain.

D. Balestreri added to PB 7/28/09