PB Peter Sis

Another favorite author of mine is Peter Sis.  I just love the way he illustrates his books with a combination of storyboards, concrete poetry, maps, diagrams, etc.  The illustrations are endlessly fascinating; I could spend forever looking at them.  A Small Tall Tale from the Far, Far North (1993) is an older Sis book, but still enjoyable.  The story is based on a Czech folk hero Jan Welzl who travelled through Siberia to the Bering Sea where he crosses to Alaska.  There, he encounters the Eskimos whose culture is in danger during the Alaskan Gold Rush.  My favorite part of this story is the embedded Alaskan folk tale whose moral is that danger is the way of life for all living things.