Coyote in Love With a Star Tales of the People [Hardcover]

Created with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Tales of the People is a series of children's books celebrating Native American culture with illustrations and stories by Indian artists and writers. In addition to the tales themselves, each book also offers four pages filled with information and photographs exploring various aspects of Native culture, including a glossary of words in different Indian languages.

Marty Kreipede Montaño is manager of the Resource Center of the George Gustav Heye Center, NMAIs Manhattan branch. A member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi from Kansas, she has an M.A. in Ethnohistory of North American Indians from the University of Kansas. Ms. de Montaño, who lives in New York City, is co-author of The Native American Almanac, selected by Choice magazine as one of the Outstanding Academic Books for 1995.

Tom Coffin, who lives in Phoenix, has an extensive background in painting, sculpture, and architectural restoration. A Kansas native and member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi and Creek tribes, Mr. Coffin received a B.F.A. degree in painting and sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute.