Corn is Maize: The Gift of the IndiansPopcorn, corn on the cob, cornbread -- and corncob pipes! Tacos and tamales and tortillas! All these and many other good things come from an amazing plant that the Indians discovered and taught the white man how to grow. In her own magical way, Aliki tells the story of corn: how Indian farmers thousands of years ago found and nourished a wild grass plant and made it an important part of their lives, how they learned the best ways to grow and store and use its fat yellow kernels, how they shared this knowledge with the new settlers of America. Cheerful illustrations by the author complete this lively account of the Indians' gift to us all. |
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Aliki ALIKI'S CORN HUSK America Ancient Corn baby barley beans bigger boiled Brandenberg bread brown called corn cave CHILD LIT Christopher Columbus College cooked Corn cannot grow Corn Dance Corn Gods corn growing CORN IS MAIZE Corn kernels corn plant Corn seeds corn silk corn stalk cornmeal crop Different Kinds Dinosaurs dolls dried ear of corn earth Emeritus farmers fertilization FLINT flour fresh grain grass grew ground grow corn grow wild hanger harvest hill Indians kernel of corn Kinds of Corn learned LET'S-READ-AND-FIND-OUT BOOK Libraries lives Long Ago MAIZE The Gift meal metate Mexico mill Moon nodes oats Philadelphia Pilgrims plant the seeds plants to grow pollen popcorn protein rice rotted Scientists think Shooting sprout would grow Stars store corn strand of silk sweet Switch tall tamales tassels Teosinte tiny Title tortillas tribes planted wheat wire wrapped WREATH written and illustrated