![]() ![]() ![]() The concise and graceful text is matched with illustrations in a primitive but dramatic vein, marked by simplified shapes, saturated matte colors, and desert-stark composition. It absolves humans of guilt (Coyote did it) and provides a First Woman who is a strong, positive, and beneficent figure. never knowing the reason for the confusion that would always dwell among them.'' This Navajo tale acknowledges the common human feeling that there IS a message in the stars-the laws of a clear and orderly universe-if it could be read. ![]() As the second day dawns, the people go about their lives, ``. She takes a blanket full of her jewels (stars) and with infinite patience begins ``designing her pattern so all could read it.'' Coyote asks to help, but when he sees the magnitude of the task he grumbles, then flings the remaining stars into the night sky, forever obscuring the pattern. Kindergarten-Grade 3- At the end of the first day, First Woman tries to convince First Man that ``The people need to know the laws.'' Impatiently, he tells her to write them in the sky. ![]()
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