Author: Mourning Dove
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803281691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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These tales feature Mole, Coyote's wife, Chipmunk, Owl-Woman, Fox, and others

Author: Thomas King
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554988357
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63

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Two tales, set in a time “when animals and human beings still talked to each other,” display Thomas King’s cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Freshly illustrated and reissued as an early chapter book, these stories are perfect for newly independent readers. In Coyote Sings to the Moon, Old Woman and the animals sing to the moon each night. Coyote attempts to join them, but his voice is so terrible they beg him to stop. He is crushed and lashes out — who needs Moon anyway? Furious, Moon dives into a pond, plunging the world into darkness. But clever Old Woman comes up with a plan to send Moon back up into the sky and, thanks to Coyote, there she stays. In Coyote’s New Suit, mischievous Raven wreaks havoc when she suggests that Coyote’s toasty brown suit is not the finest in the forest, thus prompting him to steal suits belonging to all the other animals. Meanwhile, Raven tells the other animals to borrow clothes from the humans’ camp. When Coyote finds that his closet is too full, Raven slyly suggests he hold a yard sale, then sends the human beings (in their underwear) and the animals (in their ill-fitting human clothes) along for the fun. A hilarious illustration of the consequences of wanting more than we need. Key Text Features table of contents illustrations Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

Author: Dan Flores
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465098533
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation." -Wall Street Journal Legends don't come close to capturing the incredible story of the coyote. In the face of centuries of campaigns of annihilation employing gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn't just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Alaska to New York. In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won, hands-down. Coyote America is the illuminating five-million-year biography of this extraordinary animal, from its origins to its apotheosis. It is one of the great epics of our time.

Author: Shreve Stockton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416592180
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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Developed from her tremendously popular blog, this book offers the inspiring and beautifully illustrated account of the author's experiences raising an orphaned coyote as a beloved pet. Full-color photographs throughout.

Author: Susan Strauss
Publisher: Pickering, Ont. : S. Mattacchione
ISBN: 9781895270068
Category : Coyote (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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In a series of four stories, the Native American character Coyote is introduced to young readers showing the creative and foolish nature of this popular hero trickster.

Author: Ekkehart Malotki
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803281233
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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This volume brings together twenty-one traditional tales recently retold by Hopi narrators. Complete with English translations and original Hopi transcriptions on facing pages and a bilingual glossary. Hopi Coyote Tales is important to an understanding of the Hopi language and folklore. To nomadic hunters such as the Navajo, who competed with him on the open range, Coyote was by turns a formidable trickster, a demonic witchperson, and a god. As sedentary planters, the Hopis tended to reduce Coyote to the level of a laughable fool. In these tales Coyote is a friendly bumbler whose mistakes teach listeners what tricks to avoid. Time after time he is hurt or killed for failing to understand a situation correctly. The collection is as amusing as animal fables should be, as simply told, and as instructive. Published as a companion volume to Father Berard Haile's Navajo Coyote Tales, Hopi Coyote Tales is a valuable contribution to cross-cultural studies.

Author: Gerald W. Haslam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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In 25 stories (19 previously published and 6 new) Haslam (English, Sonoma State U.) reveals a rural West with a startling variety of characters and dialects--the is the big city. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Nancy C. Wood
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763615444
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Realizing that he has come to the end of his days, Old Coyote recalls many of the good things about his life.

Author: Thomas King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780888998309
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A trickster named Coyote rules her world, until a funny-looking stranger named Columbus changes her plans. Unimpressed by the wealth of moose, turtles, and beavers in Coyote's land, he'd rather figure out how to hunt human beings to sell back in Spain. Thomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter the stereotypes surrounding Columbus's voyages. In doing so, he invites children to laugh with him at the crazy antics of Coyote, who unwittingly allows Columbus to engineer the downfall of his human friends. William Kent Monkman's vibrant illustrations perfectly complement this amusing story with a message.

Author: Joe Hayes
Publisher: Mariposa Printing & Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780933553019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77

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Offers tales featuring the Native American prankster known as Coyote.