Description
Product Description
A howl in the night. A watchful eye in the darkness.A flutter of movement among the trees. Coyotes.In the dark of the night, a mother coyote stalks prey to feed her hungry pups. Her hunt takes her through a suburban town, where she encounters a mouse, a rabbit, a flock of angry geese, and finally an unsuspecting turkey on the library lawn. POUNCE!Perhaps Coyote's family won't go hungry today.This title has Common Core connections.
From School Library Journal
K-Gr 2—A captivating and atmospheric title about a mother coyote on the hunt through a suburban landscape. Readers join the coyote as she leaves her pups in the den and travels through a neighborhood, a golf course, and a lakeside—all in pursuit of a mouse, a flock of geese, a rabbit, and, finally, one unfortunate turkey. The text is spare, with a focus on the coyote's movement and use of her senses: she listens to the scratching of the mouse, sniffs the air and smells the geese, lunges, slinks, pounces, and much more. With the arrival of the sun and the success of her hunt, the coyote lets out a celebratory "Yeeeep-yip-yip-yoooo" before heading back to feed and snuggle with her young. Readers looking for straightforward facts won't find them within the text; the dynamic and richly detailed illustrations are what tell the story here. Ibatoulline uses color, shadow, and dramatic angles to portray the coyote's athleticism, her hunting style, the flight response of her prey, and the passage of time (the narrative begins at night and ends with dawn). Back matter expands on the coyote's origin in the United States and its habitat, territory, diet, physical abilities, communication, and family structure. VERDICT Simple text and remarkable artwork make this a great selection for read-alouds and parent-child bonding.—Kelly Topita, Anne Arundel County Public Library, MD
Review
“'Yip-yip-yip-yip!'” indeed, for this sympathetic portrayal of a not-often-celebrated creature who shares our world. --
starred review Kirkus
"Quietly poetic text and show-stopping artwork create a tense account of a coyote's nocturnal search for food. Gianferrari (the Penny & Jelly books) instantly establishes an atmospheric setting, opening as 'Coyote wakes in her den,/ a hollowed-out pine in a cemetery.' Ibatoulline's paintings, always impressive, are downright astonishing in this book." --
starred review Publisher's Weekly"Simple text and remarkable artwork make this a great selection for read-alouds and parent-child bonding." --
starred review School Library Journal
About the Author
Maria Gianferrari lives in northern Virginia with her scientist husband, artist daughter, and rescue pets, Becca the dog and Lucia the rat. This is her fourth book for Roaring Brook Press and a companion to
Coyote Moon and
Hawk Rising. Visit her at mariagianferrari.com or on Facebook.
Bagram Ibatoulline is a Russian-born artist who has illustrated many acclaimed books for young readers, including Kate DiCamillo's
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Jane Yolen's
The Scarecrow's Dance, and Lois Lowry's
Crow Call. He lives in the Catskills region of New York.