The Lost Children: The Boys Who Were NeglectedPaul Goble's The Lost Children is based on Blackfoot Native American myth, this tale movingly reminds us that all children are sacred. Six orphaned brothers, neglected by their people and taunted by their peers, abandon the earth for the Above World where they become the constellation known as the Pleiades. |
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