Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves
By Peter Roop, Connie Roop and Yoshi Miyake
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Ahyoka is the daughter of Sequoyah, a silversmith who has given up most of his trade to focus on his true passion. He longs for the day when the Cherokee people can communicate to one another from afar and document the history of their lives. He wants his people—the Real People—to have a written language like the white men do.
When he is ostracized from his community for the “magic” he is creating, he leaves his home to pursue his quest. His young daughter, who shares his dream, joins him on his journey. They work together to create a syllabic alphabet that will tell the story of the Cherokee people.
Peter Roop
Peter and Connie Roop are award-winning authors and educators who have published over one hundred children’s books, including the Reading Rainbow feature selection Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie. They have written biographies, historical fiction, general fiction, and science books. In 2013 the Wisconsin Library Association recognized the Roops as Notable Wisconsin Authors for their body of work, and Peter Roop has been named a Wisconsin State Teacher of the Year.
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Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves - Peter Roop
Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves
Peter and Connie Roop
Illustrated by Yoshi Miyaki
FOR HEIDI,
our Ahyoka, who brings us much happiness.
ONE
Ahyoka’s charcoal flew across the sycamore bark.
Would Father understand her picture? Sometimes he knew what her drawings meant. Other times he did not. When she had drawn her best buffalo, he had thought it was a cow.
For two summers and two winters Ahyoka and her father, Sequoyah, had been drawing pictures for the Tsalagi people’s words. The Cherokee had so many words, and she and Sequoyah had to draw a picture for every one of them. The stack of drawings in the corner reached Ahyoka’s chin. Yet she felt as if they had just begun.
There were still so many more words to draw: Gadu, bread. Ahawi, deer. Waya, wolf. And those were the easy words. What would she draw for hard ones, for anger, sorrow, dusk, autumn?
Ahyoka sighed. Even if they drew every Cherokee word, would her people understand them?