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¡GANADOR DE LA MEDALLA CALDECOTT! Una niña Cherokee le presenta a su hermano menor las tradiciones de su familia (¡a regañadientes!) en un sincero álbum. Chooch, el hermano menor de Sissy, ya no es un bebé. Recién cumplió dos años. No importa lo que haga Chooch, incluso cuando desarregla las cosas--¡lo cual pasa todo el tiempo!--sus padres solo dicen que está ""ayudando"". A Sissy le parece que nunca hay consecuencias para Chooch. Cuando Elisi pinta un mural, Chooch ayuda. Cuando Edutsi prepara bolas de masa de uva, Chooch ayuda. Cuando oginalii pesca con lanza los cangrejos de río, Chooch ayuda. Cuando Sissy intenta formar una vasija de barro, Chooch ayuda ... ""¡Hlesdi!"" le grita Sissy. ¡Ya basta! Y Chooch estalla en lágrimas. Lo que sigue es un momento tierno en familia que resonará con cualquiera que haya tomado bajo el ala a un nuevo crío. Chooch ayudó cuenta la historia de una hermana mayor aprendiendo a aceptar un nuevo hermano, narrado con elegancia por Andrea L. Rogers, y muestra como una familia Cherokee se inmersa en sus tradiciones culturales. WINNER OF THE CALDECOTT MEDAL! A Cherokee girl introduces her younger brother to their family's traditions--begrudgingly!--in a heartfelt book. Sissy's younger brother Chooch isn't a baby anymore. They just celebrated his second birthday, after all. But no matter what Chooch does--even if he's messing something up! Which is basically all the time!--their parents say he's ""helping."" Sissy feels that Chooch can get away with anything! When Elisi paints a mural, Chooch helps. When Edutsi makes grape dumplings, Chooch helps. When oginalii gigs for crawdads, Chooch helps. When Sissy tries to make a clay pot, Chooch helps-- ""Hesdi!"" Sissy yells. Quit it! And Chooch bursts into tears. What follows is a tender family moment that will resonate with anyone who has welcomed a new little one to the fold. Chooch Helped is a universal story of an older sibling learning to make space for a new child, told with grace by Walter Award winner Andrea L. Rogers, and showing one Cherokee family practicing their cultural traditions.

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Andrea L. Rogers is an author whose collection of horror stories, Man Made Monsters, received six starred reviews and won the Walter Dean Myers Award for Young Adult fiction. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and graduated with an MFA degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.

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