Image Description Front: Front cover of Beyond the Ridge featuring colorful illustration of pronghorns, flowers, and a figure overlooking a distant ridge.
Image Description Back: Back cover of Beyond the Ridge with pronghorns, flowers, flying birds, and descriptive text about the book and author.
About Beyond the Ridge: An elderly woman’s peaceful spirit journey after death. Guided by the call of her ancestors, she climbs toward a pine‑covered ridge and enters a serene spirit world filled with loved ones who passed before her.
About the author: Paul Goble (1933–2017), born in England, devoted his life to sharing Native American traditions through more than 30 illustrated books, including the Caldecott Medal winner
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Inspired by childhood stories, he spent summers on reservations, was adopted by Lakota and Yakima people, and settled in South Dakota’s Black Hills in 1977, drawing deeply from Lakota, Cheyenne, and Blackfoot stories to celebrate their culture and wisdom.
Back Cover Text: Paul Goble has written about Beyond the Ridge: “The concept of the long climb of someone who is dying is one which we can understand. You walk gradually, and seemingly endlessly, upwards to a distant ridge. The view from the top will simply take your breath away… This is a vision of that other land Beyond the Ridge.”
“A wholly original picture book.” — Starred, Booklist
Paul Goble lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. His many wonderful books for children include the Caldecott Award–winning The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, Buffalo Woman, and Star Boy, all available from Aladdin.
