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Ancient Thunder - Wikipedia

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Ancient Thunder
Book Cover, 2006 edition
Author	Leo Yerxa
Illustrator	Leo Yerxa
Language	English
Genre	Children's literature
Publisher	Groundwood Books
Publication date	3 August 2006
Publication place	Canada

Ancient Thunder is a children's fantasy picture book by the Canadian artist and writer Leo Yerxa, simultaneously published in Canada and the United States in 2006. It won the 2006 Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration and the 2008 Saskatchewan Willow Award for picture books. Ancient Thunder was both illustrated and written by Leo Yerxa.

Summary

This book describes the relationship of horses and First Nation's cultures with a single poem and illustrations using water-colour artwork. Only few lines of text per page contrast with painted images associated with native culture.

Concept and development

Yerxa was interested by the native people while he watched them ride across the Great Plains in the movie when he was a child, their traditional clothing and the running creatures inspired Yerxa to write this book. He used handmade water-colour paper and made it look like leather.

Awards

Year	Literary awards	Result	Ref.
2006	Governor General's Literary Awards	Won	^[1]^[2]
2007	First Nation Communities Read	Won	^[3]
2008	Willow Awards	Won	^[4]
2007	Anskohk Aboriginal Children's Book of the Year Award	Nominated	^[5]
2007	Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award	Nominated

References

^ "The Canada Council for the Arts announces finalists for the 2006 Governor General's Literary Awards". Canadian Council for the Arts. 2006-10-16. Archived from the original on 2013-06-01. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
^ CBC Arts (2006-10-16). "Finalists named for Governor General's Awards for literature". CBC. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
^ "First Nation Communities Read Archives". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
^ "2008 Shining Willow Finalists". askatchewan Young Readers' Choice Awards. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
^ "The Ânskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival Children's Book of the Year". Resource Links. Retrieved 2022-03-19.

External links

The 2008 Willow Awards
First Nation Communities Read at the Canadian Children's Book Centre
Past GG – Leo Yerxa at Canada Council for the Arts
Ancient Thunder at IndieBound
Book review: "(Re)presenting Cultures" by Suzanne James in Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, Autumn 2007, pg. 188–189
Children's Book Review:Ancient Thunder in Publishers Weekly

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1990s	Paul Morin, The Orphan Boy (1990) Joanne Fitzgerald, Doctor Kiss Says Yes (1991) Ron Lightburn, Waiting for the Whales (1992) Mireille Levert, Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming (1993) Murray Kimber, Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story (1994) Ludmila Zeman, The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (1995) Eric Beddows, The Rooster's Gift (1996) Barbara Reid, The Party (1997) Kady MacDonald Denton, A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes (1998) Gary Clement, The Great Poochini (1999)
2000s	Marie-Louise Gay, Yuck, A Love Story (2000) Mireille Levert, An Island in the Soup (2001) Wallace Edwards, Alphabeasts (2002) Allen Sapp, The Song Within My Heart (2003) Stéphane Jorisch, Jabberwocky (2004) Rob Gonsalves, Imagine a Day (2005) Leo Yerxa, Ancient Thunder (2006) Duncan Weller, The Boy from the Sun (2007) Stéphane Jorisch, The Owl and the Pussycat (2008) Jirina Marton, Bella's Tree (2009)
2010s	Jon Klassen, Cats' Night Out (2010) Cybèle Young, Ten Birds (2011) Isabelle Arsenault, Virginia Wolf (2012) Matt James, Northwest Passage (2013) Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer (2014) JonArno Lawson, Sidewalk Flowers (2015) Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka, Tokyo Digs a Garden (2016) David Robertson and Julie Flett, When We Were Alone (2017) Jillian Tamaki, They Say Blue (2018) Sydney Smith, Small in the City (2019)
2020s	The Fan Brothers, The Barnabus Project (2020) David A. Robertson and Julie Flett, On the Trapline (2021) Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi, The Sour Cherry Tree (2022) Jack Wong, When You Can Swim (2023) Jean E. Pendziwol and Todd Stewart, Skating Wild on an Inland Sea (2024)

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