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Lasky, Kathryn ; illustrated by Rocco Baviera.
FIRST PAINTER
New York : Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
IL 3-6  RL 4.1
ISBN 0789425785
After the death of her mother, young Mishoo must take her place as the tribe's Dream Catcher.  Mishoo lives in a long ago time.  A time of cave people.  Mishoo's peoople are slowly dying because of a long drought.  It is up to Mishoo to bring the rain.  She must catch the dream that will bring the much needed rain that can save her people.  One night she dreams of her mother who tells Mishoo to go to the cave of the she-tiger.  Mishoo is afraid but knows she must follow her vision and go.  What awaits Mishoo in the cave?  What can she do to bring the rain?  Will it work?  To find out what life may have been like many years ago, read FIRST PAINTER by Kathryn Lasky.
SUBJECTS:     Cave paintings -- Fiction.
                        Prehistoric peoples -- Fiction.

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