Saltypie

'Trouble,' storyteller Tim Tingle tells his audiences, 'is where story comes from.' Without trouble, there is no story. Growing up, when he or his Choctaw family faced trouble, they said, 'saltypie.' This homespun expression helped them face adversity. In this wonderfully illustrated storybook, Tim tells us how that expression "saltypie" came to be. When Tim's dad was a boy, the family moved into an Anglo neighborhood. His grandmother walked out on the front porch one day. Someone threw a rock at her face, and she lost her eyesight. Saltypie tells the story of how Tim's Choctaw family, led by the wisdom of his grandmother, walked into the light of understanding.


Genre: Children's Fiction