Coyote Stories for Children: Tales from Native America
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (728 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0941831620 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 50 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Book by Strauss, Susan
"Funny, Funny, Funny - for kids" according to Hourly Internet Recruitment. Without violating the spirit of teaching serious lessons, this version makes Coyote and his animal companions funny on a comic book level. Coyote's inability to contain his mirth over a creature trying to save his life and paying the price, to his brother's immediate forgiveness and loving acceptance of Coyote's foolishness are funny in ways that early elementary kids see funny, or at least the way I remember it. The stories are made, like most Coyote st. Amusing Stories This book contains a few short stories about the mischief that Coyote always seems to get into. They held the attention of my five-year-old. We found the last story - Coyote and the Grass People to be particularly amusing, but not for those who don't appreciate a little bathroom humor. The book has a few pictures in black and white. The narrative reads as if the author is really speaking the story the reader.. if you like reading to your children this a wonderful children's book Richard I first heard this book when the author read one of the stories during a National Public Radio interview. The stories were fun, children loved listening to them especially the story about the coyote and the grass people (they make coyote fart)Like most Native American stories they offer good stories that mean something to young, youth, and adult in different ways.I recommend this book. It is easy to read out loud if you are a storyteller, and just the ri
Border panels and full-page black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings are in an entertaining cartoon style that perfectly complements these rollicking adventures. --Lisa Mitten, University of Pittsburgh, PACopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. The humor here is in the same vein as Paul Goble's retellings, but Strauss gives just the slightest hint of the ribaldry that some of these tales suggest. Coyote gets his creative powers in a story from the Okanogan people of the Great Basin; bests a monster woman who is killing all the animals in a Wasco tale from the Columbia plateau; gets mad at the sun and has to be saved from being stuck in the sky by Spider Woman in a Karok account from northern California; and has an encounter with the Gras