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"It is a tale of the universal spirit of all living things, and their eternal connection to each other," says Nancy Wood of OLD COYOTE, her simple story of a wise creature's final journey, masterfully illustrated by Max Grafe. These words could apply to virtually all of Nancy Wood's books, from inspirational collections of her own poetry and prose to an anthology chronicling the history of the Taos Pueblo Indians, her friends for more than thirty years. The author of more than ten books for children, teens, and adults, Nancy Wood has garnered such honors as a prestigious Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award and an International Reading Association Teacher's Choices Award for her stunning SPIRIT WALKER: POEMS, illustrated by Frank How...more
Nancy Wood

"It is a tale of the universal spirit of all living things, and their eternal connection to each other," says Nancy Wood of OLD COYOTE, her simple story of a wise creature's final journey, masterfully illustrated by Max Grafe. These words could apply to virtually all of Nancy Wood's books, from inspirational collections of her own poetry and prose to an anthology chronicling the history of the Taos Pueblo Indians, her friends for more than thirty years. The author of more than ten books for children, teens, and adults, Nancy Wood has garnered such honors as a prestigious Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award and an International Reading Association Teacher's Choices Award for her stunning SPIRIT WALKER: POEMS, illustrated by Frank Howell. Indeed, many of her poems have had such a powerful impact on readers that they are often read at weddings and funerals.

Nancy Wood says that she wrote the story of OLD COYOTE when her seven-year-old grandson came to her, grief-stricken, after his dog was run over by a car. "He wanted to know if Buddy had gone to heaven," she says. "I explained that Buddy had dreamed himself into another world; that he was, at that very moment, beginning a new life, maybe as a horse this time, or a bear. He had begun a new and natural circle." Certainly the deeply moving OLD COYOTE suggests a universal meaning as well. "OLD COYOTE is a book about beginnings, and endings, and love among all creatures of the earth," Nancy Wood says. "It is a metaphor for the mystery, beauty, and certainty of death. How easy life would be if, like Old Coyote, we accepted death as a natural part of life. Life may be long or short, happy or sad, but whatever we're given, we should make the most of it, the way Old Coyote does as he changes one world for another, unafraid."

Most recently, Nancy Wood penned HOW THE TINY PEOPLE GREW TALL, an original creation tale illustrated by Rebecca Walsh. Of her fanciful tale, Nancy says, "We are all Tiny People at heart. Though the story of these Tiny People is based on an American Indian emergence myth, it could be about people and animals anywhere."

The award-winning poet, novelist, photographer, and children's book author Nancy Wood lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico where she still occasionally glimpses Tiny People dancing in the wilderness.

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Average rating: 4.07 · 108 ratings · 29 reviews · 28 distinct works

	Mr. & Mrs. God in the Creation Kitchen by Nancy Wood, Timothy Basil Ering (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Dancing Moons 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Spirit Walker by Nancy Wood, Frank Howell (Illustrator) 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Old Coyote by Nancy Wood, Max Grafe (Illustrator) 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Many Winters: Prose and Poetry of the Pueblos 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1974 — 3 editions	My rating:
	How Tiny People Grew Tall: An Original Creation Tale 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Sacred Fire by Nancy Wood, Frank Howell (Illustrator) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Perspectives on Argument 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Shaman's Circle 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	The Serpent's Tongue: Prose, Poetry, and Art of the New Mexican Pueblos by Nancy Wood (Editor), Tony Hillerman, Willa Cather 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Hold on to what is good even it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do even if it is a long way from here. Hold on to my hand, even when I have gone away from you. ”
― Nancy Wood

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