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Wily trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a little solstice get-together in the woods when a little girl comes by unexpectedly. She leads the friends through the snowy woods to the mall — a place they had never seen before. The trickster goes crazy with glee as he shops with abandon, only to discover that filling a shopping cart with goodies is not quite the same thing as actually paying for them. The trickster is tricked and goes back to his cabin in the woods — somewhat subdued — though nothing can keep Coyote down for long. Thomas King is known for his fiction featuring Canada's Native people, while Gary Clement's artwork has appeared in several popular children's books. A Coyote Solstice Tale blends King's brilliant deadpan humor and Clement's evocative watercolors in this witty critique of consumerism and consumption aimed at all ages.
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Thomas King has written several highly acclaimed children’s books. A Coyote Solstice Tale, illustrated by Gary Clement, won the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award for Best Picture Book and A Coyote Columbus Story, illustrated by William Kent Monkman, was a Governor General’s Award finalist.
King, who is of Cherokee and Greek descent, was a Professor of English at the University of Guelph for many years, where he taught Native Literature and Creative Writing. He recently won the Governor General’s Award for his adult novel, The Back of the Turtle, and he has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Gary Clement is an award-winning author and illustrator. He has won the Governor General’s Award (Illustration) for The Great Poochini and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award (Illustration) for Just Stay Put, and Oy, Feh, So by Cary Fagan. He has also illustrated A Coyote Solstice Tale by Thomas King and Stories from Adam and Eve to Ezekiel by Celia Barker Lottridge. He is the editorial cartoonist for the National Post, and his work has appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Gary lives in Toronto where he regularly exhibits his drawings and paintings.While Coyote prepares for a winter feast with friends, a young girl knocks on his door, explaining that she wants “to find friendship and goodwill and peace.” When his animal friends arrive, they all set off to find the girl’s parents and come to a brightly lit shopping mall, crammed with frantic shoppers. After Coyote’s wild, hilarious shopping spree, which fizzles when he has no money, the girl rejoins her parents, and the animals return to Coyote’s cozy cabin where they share a meal, stories, and songs, and pray for clean water and air. Told in rhymed verse and published in an appropriately smaller format, this wry, anti-consumerism story will resonate in the current economy. Expressive cartoon-style pictures add humor and attitude to a refreshing, unconventional “holiday” story. Grades 1-4. --Linda Perkins
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- PublisherGroundwood Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0888999291
- ISBN 13 9780888999290
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
- IllustratorClement Gary
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