(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Jeffrey Thompson. In this excerpt from The Song of Hiawatha, Hiawatha engages in battle with the evil magician Megissogwon and returns, victorious, to his people. Though modern readers will find the long, rhythmic text hard to sit through, the multimedia artwork is effective in combining different techniques to create the look of woodblock prints. An afterword by Joseph Bruchac places the poem in historical context.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Jeffrey Thompson. Scratchboard illustrations scanned into a computer and layered with color illustrate the stirring narrative poem re-creating Paul Revere's historic ride to warn the colonists in Lexington in 1775. The combination of strong graphic elements lends the poem a surreal quality, especially the scenes presided over by an oversized, crater-scarred moon. An endnote provides historical facts about the event.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute