The Dawn Seekers

About the Book

This 1988 Southwest Book Award winner "informs and entertains as the main character, Quentin, a kangaroo rat, must struggle to survive and to learn about the world. His teacher is a jerboa. In their quest for knowledge, they decide that Quentin must see the color green."

About the Author

Carol Hamilton is a writer, storyteller, and professor at the University of Central Oklahoma. She became Poet Laureate of Oklahoma in 1995 and received the Oklahoma Book Award for poetry. Once The Dust and a Southwest Book Award for The Dawn Seekers. She twice won the Byline Literary Awards and she won the David Ray Poetry Award for 2000.