Download or read book Soonchild written by Russell Hoban and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering that his soon-to-be-born first offspring, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs from her mother's womb, Sixteen-Face John, an Arctic Circle shaman, embarks on a fantastical journey to different eras and in the forms of animals and demons to find the songs that will inspire the soonchild's birth.