#ralph s mouse

[the-mouse-joust]

ROUND 3: COOLEST MICE ON THE BLOCK

LEFT: Daroach from Kirby Squeak Squad Description: "A funny little thief :) He's got a cool cape and a top hat and an ice beam attack." He's the leader of the Squeaks, and if making friends is all it takes to find some treasure, he's happy to tag along with the Squeak Squad in tow!

RIGHT: Ralph S. Mouse from The Mouse and the Motorcycle Description: "he's got a MOTORCYCLE" "He rides a motorcycle. Vroom vroom. Also delivers aspirin."

[thekatfuzz]

I'm so surprised that elementary school me never read Redwall. I loved books about little anthropomorphic mice, specifically The Mouse and The Motorcycle and the Ralph Mouse books by Beverly Cleary

[boxylic]

Hamster? Hampster? Hammy? ...mouse

[gowns]

Why Kids Aren't Falling in Love With Reading - It's Not Just Screens

A shrinking number of kids are reading widely and voraciously for fun.

The ubiquity and allure of screens surely play a large part in this—most American children have smartphones by the age of 11—as does learning loss during the pandemic. But this isn’t the whole story. A survey just before the pandemic by the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that the percentages of 9- and 13-year-olds who said they read daily for fun had dropped by double digits since 1984. I recently spoke with educators and librarians about this trend, and they gave many explanations, but one of the most compelling—and depressing—is rooted in how our education system teaches kids to relate to books.

What I remember most about reading in childhood was falling in love with characters and stories; I adored Judy Blume’s Margaret and Beverly Cleary’s Ralph S. Mouse. In New York, where I was in public elementary school in the early ’80s, we did have state assessments that tested reading level and comprehension, but the focus was on reading as many books as possible and engaging emotionally with them as a way to develop the requisite skills. Now the focus on reading analytically seems to be squashing that organic enjoyment. Critical reading is an important skill, especially for a generation bombarded with information, much of it unreliable or deceptive. But this hyperfocus on analysis comes at a steep price: The love of books and storytelling is being lost.

This disregard for story starts as early as elementary school. Take this requirement from the third-grade English-language-arts Common Core standard, used widely across the U.S.: “Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.” There is a fun, easy way to introduce this concept: reading Peggy Parish’s classic, Amelia Bedelia, in which the eponymous maid follows commands such as “Draw the drapes when the sun comes in” by drawing a picture of the curtains. But here’s how one educator experienced in writing Common Core–aligned curricula proposes this be taught: First, teachers introduce the concepts of nonliteral and figurative language. Then, kids read a single paragraph from Amelia Bedelia and answer written questions.

For anyone who knows children, this is the opposite of engaging: The best way to present an abstract idea to kids is by hooking them on a story. “Nonliteral language” becomes a whole lot more interesting and comprehensible, especially to an 8-year-old, when they’ve gotten to laugh at Amelia’s antics first. The process of meeting a character and following them through a series of conflicts is the fun part of reading. Jumping into a paragraph in the middle of a book is about as appealing for most kids as cleaning their room.

But as several educators explained to me, the advent of accountability laws and policies, starting with No Child Left Behind in 2001, and accompanying high-stakes assessments based on standards, be they Common Core or similar state alternatives, has put enormous pressure on instructors to teach to these tests at the expense of best practices. Jennifer LaGarde, who has more than 20 years of experience as a public-school teacher and librarian, described how one such practice—the class read-aloud—invariably resulted in kids asking her for comparable titles. But read-alouds are now imperiled by the need to make sure that kids have mastered all the standards that await them in evaluation, an even more daunting task since the start of the pandemic. “There’s a whole generation of kids who associate reading with assessment now,” LaGarde said.

By middle school, not only is there even less time for activities such as class read-alouds, but instruction also continues to center heavily on passage analysis, said LaGarde, who taught that age group. A friend recently told me that her child’s middle-school teacher had introduced To Kill a Mockingbird to the class, explaining that they would read it over a number of months—and might not have time to finish it. “How can they not get to the end of To Kill a Mockingbird?” she wondered. I’m right there with her. You can’t teach kids to love reading if you don’t even prioritize making it to a book’s end. The reward comes from the emotional payoff of the story’s climax; kids miss out on this essential feeling if they don’t reach Atticus Finch’s powerful defense of Tom Robinson in the courtroom or never get to solve the mystery of Boo Radley.

... Young people should experience the intrinsic pleasure of taking a narrative journey, making an emotional connection with a character (including ones different from themselves), and wondering what will happen next—then finding out. This is the spell that reading casts. And, like with any magician’s trick, picking a story apart and learning how it’s done before you have experienced its wonder risks destroying the magic.

-- article by katherine marsh, the atlantic (12 foot link, no paywall)

[enchantlost]

a collection of naddpod short rest clips i have saved on my phone:

• hot, form-fitting coffins

• emily talking about buying slime-making kits for kids & wanting buy one for herself, then being so delighted when murph said he would make slime with her (*loud gasp* “murph let’s make goo!!”)

• emily & murph aren’t soulmates but emily & their cats are

• hemp milk song

• “yeah let’s have caldwell get into a bike accident” “I HAVE A DAUGHTER, JAKE” “HE’S A FATHER, JAKE!”

• murph: what if the judges were in a little low cave in the ground instead of on a high bench just to be silly

• caldwell referencing ralph s. mouse & completely losing everyone then having to backtrack & explain

• murph referring to “emily lore”

• emily comes up with the premise of a dystopian YA novel for murph’s hot take that there should only be 10 songs

• “you don’t deserve me at my balnor if you can’t handle me at my dragon genitalia”

• hungry dave sees a vision of emily meeting the love of her life — it’s him. it’s hungry dave.

• jake learns what “binch” means

• emily bullies murph for his jack skellington sweater

• “keep the worm clean, wriggle for christ”

• caldwell gets peer pressured into letting murph carry him

• “the grinch is SO IN right now!!!”

• “emily axford subscribed to bon appétit as a child & her husband drank a cockroach”

• jake gets attacked by birds & emily is the Bird Queen

[tootern2345]

Since February is Black History Month. Here are some black animators/cartoonists to celebrate

1. Doug Moye, Camera operator and occasional voice actor for Terrytoons

2. Floyd Norman, longtime Disney animator and artist, the first long time African-American employee for the studio

3. Milton Knight, noted cartoonist for stuff like Hugo and the Mighty Mouse comics alongside working for studios like D.I.C. & Film Roman

4. Jim Simon, designer, animator, director, and founder of Wantu Animation. He worked with Ralph Bakshi in the 60’s before branching out elsewhere.

5. Frank Braxton, the first animator in Hollywood. Ben Washam, a person from Arkansas and designer of the big boy mascot, helped him get the job.

6. Dee “SupDee” Parson, cartoonist, noted for stuff like Life With Kurami, Pen & Ink, and Rosebuds.

Some honorable mentions include Phil Mendez, (kissyfur) Glen Barr, (Spümcø) Brenda Banks, (Fire & Ice, The Simpsons, King of The Hill) Ed Bell, (Disney, WB Animation, Bakshi, and Spümco) Bruce W. Smith (Bebe’s Kids & The Proud Family) Aaron McGruder (The Boondocks) and Ian Jones-Quartey (Steven Universe & OK KO)

Happy Black History Month ya’ll!

[dianethepisceswitch]

I'm watching every Disney movie in alphabetical order.

The List:

I took "the" out of all the movie titles so everything wouldn't be toward the end. And I did everything alphabetically rather than by release date because I wanted to get a proper mix of the different eras. I would die trying to watch all the 2000s Disney movies in order, so I feel like the eras being mixed would fuel my motivation to continue my watching spree. I have a few rules for this watching session.

🧸No movies from Pixar, Fox, Marvel, or any other Disney-owned partner

📀No Direct-to-DVD Sequels

🐭No shorts, Fantasia, or anthologies

Aladdin Alice in Wonderland Aristocats Atlantis Bambi Beauty and the Beast Big Hero 6 Black Cauldron Bolt Brother Bear Chicken Little Cinderella Dinosaur Dumbo Emperors New Groove Encanto Fox and the Hound Frozen Frozen 2 Great Mouse Detective Hercules Home on the Range Hunchback of Notre Dame Jungle Book Lady and the Tramp Lilo and Stitch Lion King Little Mermaid Meet the Robinsons Moana Mulan Oliver and Company One Hundred and One Dalmatians Peter Pan Pinocchio Pocahontas Princess and the Frog Ralph Breaks the Internet Raya and the Last Dragon Rescuers Rescuers Down Under Robin Hood Sleeping Beauty Snow White Sword in the stone Tangled Tarzan The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Treasure Planet Winnie the Pooh Wreck-it-Ralph Zootopia

Extra Fun:

🐇To make things extra fun I have decided to watch the movies with @bhunyee.

🪞A list of references made in Twisted Wonderland

👑I came up with a list of Disney tropes for every movie that I watch:

#1 Racism or the portrayal of non-white racial groups in poor taste #2 Using minority groups, such as LGBTQ, for comedic relief #3 General ickiness or an obvious dirty joke #4 Twist Villain #5 An animal sidekick for a humanoid main character #6 Dead biological parent(s) #7 Has a sequel or spin-off #8 References / Easter Eggs for other Disney movies #9 Has at least 2 bangers #10 Things you wouldn't expect in a kids movie(alcohol, smoking, corpses, etc.) #11 No magic or fantasy #12 Disney "prince/princess" doesn't end the movie as true royalty #13 Well known lost/deleted/cancelled/edited media or hidden background

[princesssarisa]

Who was the US president when each Disney Animated Canon movie was released

That video I watched today about who was president when each president was born has stirred up my autistic list-making instinct.

So now I'm applying it to the Disney Animated Canon, just to put each movie in its historical context.

Franklin D. Roosevelt:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Pinocchio

Fantasia

Dumbo

Bambi

Saludos Amigos

The Three Caballeros

Harry S. Truman:

Make Mine Music

Fun and Fancy Free

Melody Time

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Cinderella

Alice in Wonderland

Dwight D. Eisenhower:

Peter Pan

Lady and the Tramp

Sleeping Beauty

John F. Kennedy:

101 Dalmatians

Lyndon B. Johnson:

The Sword in the Stone

The Jungle Book

Richard Nixon:

The Aristocats

Robin Hood

Gerald Ford:

None

Jimmy Carter:

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The Rescuers

Ronald Reagan:

The Fox and the Hound

The Black Cauldron

The Great Mouse Detective

Oliver and Company

George H.W. Bush:

The Little Mermaid

The Rescuers Down Under

Beauty and the Beast

Aladdin

Bill Clinton

The Lion King

Pocahontas

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Hercules

Mulan

Tarzan

Fantasia 2000

Dinosaur

The Emperor's New Groove

George W. Bush:

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Lilo and Stitch

Treasure Planet

Brother Bear

Home on the Range

Chicken Little

Meet the Robinsons

Bolt

Barack Obama:

The Princess and the Frog

Tangled

Winnie the Pooh

Wreck-It Ralph

Frozen

Big Hero 6

Zootopia

Moana

Donald Trump:

Ralph Breaks the Internet

Frozen II

Joe Biden:

Raya and the Last Dragon

Encanto

Strange World

Wish

Just for the heck of it, I also looked up who was president when each of the six American Disney theme parks opened. As it turns out, each park opened under a different president!

Disneyland opened during Eisenhower's presidency, Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom during Nixon's, EPCOT during Reagan's, Disney MGM Studios (now Disney Hollywood Studios) during Bush Sr.'s, Animal Kingdom during Clinton's, and California Adventure during Bush Jr.'s

[takashimakato]

Ralph Bakshi Resources Masterpost

A Few years ago I was Introduced to Ralph Bakshi due to Paramount+ Adding his 1992 film Cool World to it's streaming service, when I saw the film on my recommended I watched and enjoyed it and now I've seen more films from Bakshi due to me finding and searching.

Just recently I saw @groovegalz Beatles Resource Master post which inspired me to make this Resource Masterpost, please go give them all the love and support because it takes forever to find resources like these and they deserve all the support and love!

Disclaimers

This Post Does not Include Interviews, Short films, Books, and Podcast due to how much time it would take to find all those resources, when I revisit I most likely add these but not now.

Please do your own research on Bakshi if you are more interested in his story, this masterpost will not add every single fact and information about him.

First Films (1970's)

Fritz the Cat (1972) - Robert crumb Comic & Trailer Heavy Traffic (1973) - Trailer Coonskin (1975) - Trailer

Fantasy Films (77 - 80)

Wizards (1977) - Trailer The Lord of the Rings (1978) - Trailer

Pre Retirement Films (80's)

American pop (1981) - Trailer Hey Good Lookin' (1982) - Trailer Fire and Ice (1983) - Trailer

Return to Media (Late 80's - 90's)

Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (1987) - Wikipedia

Cool World (1992) - Trailer

Spicy City (1997) - Wikipedia Bakshi's Socials

Twitter (X)

Instagram

Facebook

Youtube

Wikipedia

[isfjmel-phleg]

Jeopardy-style trivia questions about children's literature. All answers to be given in the form of a question (e.g. What is X? or Who is Y?). Are they answerable? EDIT: You can answer the questions too!

This Oregon-born author is best known as the creator of the characters Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ralph S. Mouse.

This Canadian province is the setting of L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.

Mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known by this pseudonym, under which he wrote fantastical fiction.

This book was a result of a bet that Dr. Seuss couldn’t write a story with only 50 unique words.

This J. M. Barrie novel opens with the line “All children, except one, grow up.”

The second half of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women was originally published under this title.

In L. Frank Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy travels to the Emerald City wearing shoes made out of this precious material.

Although not the first published of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, this novel comes first chronologically within the stories' timeline.

This Mark Twain novel was the first book ever written using a typewriter. Just found out that the answer I had for this was incorrect. Here is an alternate question: In E. B. White's novel Charlotte's Web, Charlotte greets Wilbur with this "fancy way of saying hello or good morning."

Roald Dahl's heroine Matilda Wormwood declares this Frances Hodgson Burnett novel to be her favorite book in the children's section of the library.

[the-mouse-joust]

ROUND 2 SIDE A: HANGING OUT WITH HUMANS

LEFT: Stuart Little from Stuart Little Description: "he's technically a boy who looks like a mouse and that is terrifying." "He walks and talks like a man." "He is a mouse adopted by a human family as their second child."

RIGHT: Ralph S. Mouse from The Mouse and the Motorcycle Description: "he's got a MOTORCYCLE" "He rides a motorcycle. Vroom vroom. Also delivers aspirin."

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

Stats Time! Europe Saves Disney in the '70s

The so-called "Dark Age" of animation, and especially Disney's, the entirety of the 1970s and a good part of the 1980s... The span of films made in the post-Walt years from THE ARISTOCATS (1970) all the way up until - depending on who you ask - THE BLACK CAULDRON (1985). Some extend it further, counting THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE (1986) and OLIVER & COMPANY (1988) as part of this "Dark" age or "Bronze" age or whatever.

I feel like those labels are an oversimplification...

While the general consensus is that the films made at Walt Disney Productions' animation wing in Burbank after the completion of THE JUNGLE BOOK and before the release of THE LITTLE MERMAID are relative low points for the company or that those films are just not-that-great (which is all subjective, I know at least one or two folks who make a case for this age of Disney being an "underrated" one), this was **not** a period of box office failure. That's for sure. Every film except THE BLACK CAULDRON made its money back. It is presumed that the Frankenstein-job clipshow feature that was 1977's THE MANY ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH also did pretty well...

After all, if one of those 1970s movies were to lose money, then the animation unit could've circled the drain. Heck, BLACK CAULDRON's performance brought about discussions of shutting down Disney Animation. That's all it could've taken... One movie losing money, and that would be the end of that. Animation was often at the mercy of indifferent executives who saw it as something too costly and something that just had a hard time drawing in audiences.

Finding box office stats isn't easy for older Disney animated films, you usually come across exaggerated or inflated numbers of some kind. (For example, THE JUNGLE BOOK did not make $73m in North America in 1967/68. The total was closer to $13m. Maybe $73m was the number it adjusted to in like, the 1990s?) International numbers are even muddier, but sometimes, you do find some juicy helpful information..

More recently, I discovered just how much the European box office helped Disney's animated features soldier on during a transitional, rollercoaster period...

I have often pointed out on here that France and West Germany were where these films usually made bank, big time. THE ARISTOCATS, ROBIN HOOD, THE RESCUERS, and THE FOX AND THE HOUND were all massive there, Top 10 hits. I mean, given that THE ARISTOCATS is set in Paris and the French countryside, it being a blockbuster in France is a given. Despite some Americanization (Southern-accented dogs, the very late '60s-looking American hippie cat in Scat Cat's gang, etc.), a lot of which likely bypassed in the movie's French dub. But yeah, French moviegoers rewarded each of these movies nicely, as did Germans on the West side of the Iron Curtain. This all came off just how *huge*, like ginormous THE JUNGLE BOOK was in West Germany and how big it was in France...

Even THE BLACK CAULDRON did pretty great in France. THE RESCUERS outgrossed STAR WARS... STAR WARS... In France and West Germany, in the same release year... Wild, huh?

Meanwhile, these movies did not crack the Top 10 in America in their respective release years. THE JUNGLE BOOK would be the last Disney animated movie to make the Top 10 domestically, until BEAUTY AND THE BEAST... Some 24 years later.

The UK box office was also quite charitable. THE ARISOCATS and ROBIN HOOD did exceptionally there, THE RESCUERS did well too. Unusually, THE FOX AND THE HOUND did not break the UK top 20 in its release frame... Maybe that one was a little too American? Too gloomy? I couldn't tell you.

Speaking of the UK box office, that's where the homegrown WATERSHIP DOWN shined. It only did, as far as I know, fairly here in the states.

Don Bluth's THE SECRET OF NIMH was a minor success in France, ditto AN AMERICAN TAIL. According to some reports out there, Ralph Bakshi's HEY GOOD LOOKIN' did pretty well in Europe despite a nonexistent run in the U.S.

Fascinating... Other countries to the rescue, it seems.

[paranormaljones]

1, 9, 20, 24, and 28💜💜💜. (sorry, I know those are some of the harder questions, but if you’d like to share I’d love to know ^-^)

sorry this took me so long XD

1. what are three things you'd say shaped you into who you are?

Novo Amor's music, Lockwood & Co. (the books and the show), and Endeavour. i picked a few more recent things that have shaped me for this one ^-^

9. tell a story about your childhood

so this probably started when i was like 9 and continued on for the next 4-5 years, but when i was a kid i had this little tiny pink Littlest Pet Shop mouse that became my constant companion. i was crazy over books that featured mice as the main characters (A Nest For Celeste, Tumtum and Nutmeg, Redwall) and i had an extremely active imagination. so i carried this little mouse (whom i named Cherry) with me everywhere i went, and i do mean everywhere. if she wasn't in my hand, she was in my pocket. she had a whole personality and many complex plotlines and i spent the majority of my time crafting little miniatures and building little spaces for her in my room and outside and pretty much everywhere i could. but one day, i misplaced her somewhere. i never did find her. 10 years later, i still wonder where she ended. i found a replacement for her in another LPS mouse whom i named Raspberry, and later on my mom let me buy a small lot of LPS mice off of eBay with my own money and my new favorite became a little brown mouse whom i named Cassie. Raspberry stayed a very prominent character as her aunt, and Cassie even had a love interest at one point named Ralph (yes, a reference to Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary).

i still have all of them somewhere, besides Cherry. i still enjoy making miniatures sometimes, but all the fun i had with those mice is probably the thing i miss most about childhood. i miss always having a mouse in my pocket.

(sorry this answer was so long XD)

20. favorite things about the night?

fireflies (you would not believe your eyes), hearing frogs and coyotes and crickets sing, seeing shooting stars, and that very specific earthy, loamy scent in the air on spring and summer nights. these are all also some of my favorite things about living out in the country.

24. what's one thing you're proud of yourself for?

going to the hardware store on two separate trips this week and picking up wood filler and sanding pads for working on my camper that i'm renovating. i feel daunted by all the stuff i need to do before i can move in but i'm proud of myself for chugging along despite feeling overwhelmed. i know it'll be so worth it in the end!

28. do you collect anything?

i do! i collect a few different things, but one thing in particular is marbles. i have a pretty big marble collection. i don't do anything with them besides look at them XD i like to look for jars of marbles at antique stores and buy them if they're not too expensive. i used to actually play marbles with my younger brother, but neither of us were very good at that so now i just collect them for fun.

thank you for the asks!! these were fun, sorry the answers are so lengthy XD

[p-isforpoetry]

T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets - Quartet No. 2: "East Coker" performed by Ralph Fiennes

"East Coker" is the second poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. It was started as a way for Eliot to get back into writing poetry and was modelled after Burnt Norton. It was finished during early 1940 and printed for the Easter edition of the 1940 New English Weekly.

Quartet No. 1: Burnt Norton Quartet No. 2: East Coker Quartet No. 3: The Dry Salvages Quartet No. 4: Little Gidding

I. In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf. Houses live and die: there is a time for building And a time for living and for generation And a time for the wind to break the loosened pane And to shake the wainscot where the field-mouse trots And to shake the tattered arras woven with a silent motto.In my beginning is my end. Now the light falls … … …

Source: Four Quartets read by Ralph Fiennes, 2009

[kitausuret]

Meet the writer!

Stolen from @bakageta!

Rules: Make yourself using this picrew and answer the questions below!

3 Fun Facts about me:

The first fanfic I ever wrote was in second grade, for Beverly Cleary's Ralph S. Mouse.

I almost always write at night (or at least after sunset).

I'm very particular about what kind of pens I handwrite with, but my favorites are from the Pilot G2, V5, or V7 lines. I've sworn by them since middle school.

Favorite season:

Autumn, for college football, cooler weather, the leaves changing color, pumpkins, bonfires, Halloween... all the things!

Continent where I live:

North America, in the Midwestern United States!

How I spend my time:

Outside of my work in disability insurance, I like to spend my free time writing, cycling, exploring the city I live in, traveling (when I can), and of course I love comics. At night I like to wind down with audiobooks! I also spend an embarrassing amount of time on Tumblr and Discord LOL

Are you published?

Back in high school, I did have a couple poems and a prose piece in our school-wide publication. I think I may have also gotten a poem submitted to a state-wide publication but I have no idea what it was.

Introvert or Extrovert?

I consider myself an extrovert, I really love being around lots of people, as long as it's not a super-enclosed space. But I thrive in places like Chicago and DC that are always hustling and bustling. It's fun!

Favorite meal:

Ooo, hard choice. I really love breakfast foods though, so: 1 egg over medium, french toast, and slightly-limp bacon. That's the good stuff!

If you'd like to do this, consider yourself tagged!

[protoslacker]

What I remember most about reading in childhood was falling in love with characters and stories; I adored Judy Blume’s Margaret and Beverly Cleary’s Ralph S. Mouse. In New York, where I was in public elementary school in the early ’80s, we did have state assessments that tested reading level and comprehension, but the focus was on reading as many books as possible and engaging emotionally with them as a way to develop the requisite skills. Now the focus on reading analytically seems to be squashing that organic enjoyment. Critical reading is an important skill, especially for a generation bombarded with information, much of it unreliable or deceptive. But this hyperfocus on analysis comes at a steep price: The love of books and storytelling is being lost.

Katherine Marsh quoted in a post by Diane Ravitch at Diane Ravitch's Blog. Katherine Marsh: Why Children Don’t Fall in Love with Reading

I struggled to finish books when I was young. In eleventh grade something clicked, and I read a lot of books that year. I thought I hadn't read books before then, but I have strong memories of stories I'd read before then. Sometimes even parts of stories can move us. For example when I was ten I attempted to read The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter.

I read enough of the story to know the protagonist John Butler was kidnapped by the Lenape and adopted into a Lenape family as True Son. Later he is returned but refuses white culture. I probably skipped to the ending of the book. It's been a long time since reading it, but my memory has it that True Son is in the middle of a river when he understands that the Lenape refuse him. I was astonished--gobsmacked. The story impressed on me the importance of culture and I really felt it.

Stories matter and we should take care to share them with each other and especially with children.