Greetings!

Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing presenting our new native children’s books!

We also have copies of “Beginnings” and “Tao of Nookomis” by Thomas Peacock.

We can also drop off or ship books to you.

Thank you so much!
Betsy Albert-Peacock

​New Releases - May 2020

The Boy from Pickerel Lake

The Boy From Pickerel Lake by Steve Barse is a fictionalized biography chapter book about a young Dakota High School basketball star. Set in the early 1930’s, Bill Sheldon becomes the only Native high school player in South Dakota. The life story of Harold Barse, the author’s father.

​Available May 2020. Price: TBA

Thakoza: Walks with the Blue Moon Girl

Thakoza: Walks With the Blue Moon Girl, By Tara Perron, is an endearing, lyrical illustrated children’s story about a young Dakota girl, walks with the blue moon girl, and her khunzi (grandmother). The grandmother teaches her, thakoza (granddaughter), through story while making star quilts, and planting and caring for a garden.

Available May 2020. Price: TBA

Neneboozhoo Steals Fire

Neneboozhoo Steals Fire, by Giniwgiizhig, is a classic illustrated children’s Ojibwe story of when the trickster stole fire from an old man and his daughters. Translated and written in both English and Ojibwemowin, and to be told when there is snow on the ground, the book introduces readers to the cultural here and the Ojibwe language.

​Available May 2020. Price: TBA

The Wolf’s Trail
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The Wolf’s Trail, by Thomas D. Peacock, and published by Holy Cow! Press, this story tells of Zhi-Shay, an elder wolf, and a litter of young wolves living somewhere on the side of a hill overlooking the river that flows through Nagahchiwangong in Northern Minnesota. Zhi-Shay, who knows the whole story of the parallel relationship between wolves and the Ojibwe going all the way back to the beginning, sharing it with his nieces and nephews, and us. Replete with universal lessons, The Wolf’s Trail is the story of the Ojibwe, told by wolves, of what they were and have become, and the promise of their becoming.

​Available May 2020. Price: $16.95

Current Releases

The Dancers

  “The Dancers” by Thomas Peacock and illustrated by Jacqueline Paske Gill. Retail $10.99 plus S/H.
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Grasshopper Girl

“Grasshopper Girl” by Teresa Peterson and illustrated by Jordan Rodgers. Retail $10 plus S/H.
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Rez Dog

​“Rez Dog” by Heather Brink and illustrated by Jordan Rodgers. Retail $10 plus S/H.​
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The Forever Sky
​“Forever Sky” by Thomas Peacock and illustrated by Annette Lee, (Minnesota Historical Society) which just received a Kirkus starred review as well! Retail $16.95.

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