When Small Wolf encounters settlers on the Island of Hills, now known as Manhattan, he learns that their ideas about owning land are much different from his. As timely as when it was first published in 1972, this poignant story about the impact of European settlers on Native American people is even more dramatic in this new full color edition.

Nathaniel Benchley is the highly-respected author of many historical I Can Read Books including Sam the Minuteman and George the Drummer Boy, among many others.
Joan Sandin is the author and illustrator of the I Can Read Books The Long Way Westward and The Long Way to a New Land. She has also illustrated Snowshoe Thompson by Nancy Smiler Levinson and Thomas Lewis's Clipper Ship and Hill of Fire. Ms. Sandin lives in Tuscon, Arizona.