![]() ![]() Shop our collection of Alibris Books Books. ![]() Powerful and pleasingly enigmatic in Oughton's lyrical, compact retelling, the tale is well served by Desimini's handsomely designed illustrations featuring biomorphic forms - the land itself seems as organic as the human figures - and the glowering rusts and blues that are becoming her trademark. Buy Alibris Books How The Stars Fell Into The Sky: A Navajo Legend - By Jerrie Oughton in Canada at TheBay. Testy and imperious, Spider Woman isn't patient with their questions, so even when the lesson is complete the women don't understand, at first, what they have learned. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. The unsourced tale tells how two women, concerned for their cold and hungry people since ""Even when winter had come and gone, it stayed winter in their hearts because the white wolf of fear crept among them,"" encounter Spider Woman, who pulls them into her land near the sky, makes a giant loom, and shows them how to prepare wool, gather colors from all creation, and weave with reverence as well as skill (""Weave with your very souls and be sure to bind each end of the rug carefully""). Read reviews and buy How the Stars Fell Into the Sky - by Jerrie Oughton (Paperback) at Target. ![]() ![]() A second Navajo myth from the team that collaborated on How the Stars Fell into the Sky (1992). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 15 (208pp) ISBN 978-8-4 Set in 1950s small-town North Carolina and narrated by a ''good'' girl who gets pregnant, this novel would. ![]()
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