May/June 2012 Book of the Month: Sky Dancers

“Sky Dancers” written by Connie Ann Kirk and illustrated by Christy Hale is an historial fiction book which takes place in the early 1930s and is based on the historic story of Mokawk steelworks. The little boy in the story has a father who has gone to the city to work on the New York Skyscrapers. He misses his father and only gets to see him on weekends. One day his Mama takes him into the city to visit his father and notices how different things are from the reservation. When he sees his father at work on the tall buildings he describes it as seeing his father dance across the sky.  This enjoyable story is a celebration of family, courage and pride.