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How the Stars Fell Into the Sky: A Navajo Legend
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How the Stars Fell Into the Sky: A Navajo Legend Hardback - 1992

by Jerrie Oughton; Lisa Desimini (Illustrator)

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This retelling of a Navajo folktale explains how First Woman tried to write the laws of the land using stars in the sky, only to be thwarted by the trickster Coyote.

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This retelling of a Navajo folktale explains how First Woman tried to write the laws of the land using stars in the sky, only to be thwarted by the trickster Coyote.

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  • Title How the Stars Fell Into the Sky: A Navajo Legend
  • Author Jerrie Oughton; Lisa Desimini (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 28
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harcourt Brace and Company, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1992-03-30
  • ISBN 9780395587980 / 0395587980
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.31 x 8.23 x 0.38 in (26.19 x 20.90 x 0.97 cm)
  • Age range 04 to 07 years
  • Grade levels P - 2
  • Reading level 780
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Navajo Indians, Indians of North America - Southwest, New
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91017274
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.208

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"Oughton's fine debut provides Desimini with the best vehicle she's had for her spare, powerful style . . . A dramatically handsome setting for an especially noble Native American tale." Kirkus Reviews with Pointers
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