Birchbark House

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwa, was inspired to write The Birchbark House while she and her mother, Rita Gourneau Erdrich, were researching their own family history. She is the author of many critically acclaimed and best-selling books for adults, including Love Medicine, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, and most recently Tales of Burning Love and The Antelope Wife. She has also written a picture book, Grandmother's Pigeon. The Birchbark House is her first novel for young readers, and the first book she has illustrated. Louise Erdrich lives with her daughters in Minnesota. She is pictured here with her daughter Pallas's hand-raised crow, Mab, who has since returned to the wild.Erdrich, Louise is the author of 'Birchbark House', published 2002 under ISBN 9780786814541 and ISBN 0786814543.