Mindy Dwyer, Author Alaska Northwest Books $6.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-88240-485-1
The legendary Coyote falls hopelessly in love in this meager and rather melancholy Native American tale, which explains how Crater Lake in Oregon came to be. Not only is Coyote's love unrequited, but the object of his desire, a blue star, is...
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Mindy Dwyer, Author Alaska Northwest Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88240-522-3
Dwyer's (Coyote in Love) softly shaded watercolors exude cheeriness and warmth, and her patterns create a coziness befitting her subject, but the artwork is ultimately overwhelmed by the text. As the first snow falls, Katy resumes her goal to finish
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Mindy Dwyer, Author Alaska Northwest Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88240-494-3
This fanciful exploration of the origins of Aurora Borealis, the northern lights, is a scrumptious delight. Dipping her watercolor brush into an array of cream-puff colors, Dwyer dreams up Aurora, a girl of the northern lands who lives where the sun
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Mindy Dwyer. Sasquatch/Little Bigfoot, $10.99 paper (32p) ISBN 978-1-57061-975-5
In this uneven regional staging of Snow White, the story unfolds in the icy Alaskan wilderness. Snow White has a placid doll-like appearance, while the wicked Queen has sharp, angular features—part Cruella de Vil, part Snow Miser. As the title...
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