Picture book, 40 pages. Audience: 4 – 8 years. Published in 2022 by Penguin Workshop.
Dance Hard!
Ria Thundercloud is from the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin and the Sandia Pueblo peoples of New Mexico and was welcomed to the dance circle at 4 years old with a traditional jingle dance pow wow initiation. By the time she was 13 she was also studying jazz, ballet and classical dance. As she dances nationally and internationally, Thundercloud has followed her brother’s whispered advice at her pow wow initiation to “Dance hard!”
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