Coyote Christmas: A Lakota Story (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780810993679)

A traditional American Indian folklore character gets a modern update in Coyote Christmas, a charming holiday picture book from award-winning author and illustrator S. D. Nelson.

On Christmas Eve on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Coyote wants to find some people to trick out of a hot meal. Sneaky Coyote is known by American Indians as the Trickster. He knows that there's one person people can't refuse on Christmas Eve: Santa Claus! In red rags and a woolly Santa's beard, the Trickster fools a family into welcoming him to their Christmas dinner. But just when he thinks he's gotten away with his ruse, taking their food and leaving the family with nothing, he's foiled by a strange occurrence. Could it be a Christmas miracle?

Coyote's antics, beautifully told and illustrated by award-winning author and member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe S. D. Nelson, will delight readers, and his eventual comeuppance just in time for Christmas makes this a perfect holiday tale.

Author: S. D. Nelson
ISBN-10: 0810993678
ISBN-13: 9780810993679
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2007
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 10.30h x 9.30w x 0.80d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.2
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 115342 / Coyote Christmas: A Lakota Story


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 10/01/2007 pg. 102
Publishers Weekly 10/22/2007 pg. 56
Kirkus Review - Children 11/01/2007 pg. 1161