The Girl Who Loved Coyotes by Nancy Wood • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins, 1995 • Hardcover with Dust jacket in archival sleeve. 48 pages LIKE NEW Vintage First Edition, First Printing. Sticker residue on back of DJ. • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0688139817 • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0688139810 • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 7 - 9 Presents twelve Southwestern tales including, "The girl who loved coyotes," "Sun Mother and Moon Mother," "How coyote got his song," "The animal convention," and "The rainbow bridge" “ … many of these 12 original stories, the coyote is a central figure of survival amid the clash of Indian, Spanish, and Anglo cultures. The title story launches the book's exploration of conflict. When a sheepherder's daughter watches a pack of coyotes eat one of her father's sheep, she cries, "Those are my father's sheep!" and a coyote replies, "It's our nature to eat sheep." Sympathetic to the coyotes, the girl flees with the pack and is said to be heard singing with them every new moon. The stories vary greatly, but all are compellingly written, inventive, and tinged with mysticism and melancholy over an environment scarred by warring human interests. The striking, oil-on-linen illustrations also convey a complexity of viewpoint. Both primitive and ornate, traditional and contemporary, the paintings somehow wrestle the southwestern cliches of cactus and howling coyotes into emblems of great dignity.” Julie Yates Walton - BL

ISBN: 9780688139810