Way Out West Lives a Coyote Named Frank - Hardcover

Lund, Jillian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525449825 ISBN 13: 9780525449829

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile, 1993

Synopsis

Frank, the lovable, laid-back coyote, guides readers on a tour of the desert, showing off the odd creatures and explaining how he spends his days either playing with friends or being alone.

About this title

About the Author:

Jillian Lund grew up in Kailua, on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. She has studied art and design at the Honolulu Academy of Art. Currently, she lives way out west in Denver, Colorado, where she works as a painter, illustrator and graphic designer.

From Publishers Weekly:

Distant indigo mesas, golden-brown sand, sun-baked rocks and green cacti suggest the landscape of the American Southwest in this unassuming, beguiling debut. The eponymous Frank, recognizable by his gray fur and orange-patterned bandanna, chases a rabbit and a skunk with his coyote friend Larry, investigates a tortoise and a gila monster, and flirts with a female coyote. The decorative illustrations and minimal, matter-of-fact text share a forthright simplicity (this very directness, in fact, produces a quiet humor), while the easygoing characters and warm earth tones exude affability. Lund takes a coloring-book approach, neatly filling bold black outlines with solid, almost imperceptibly shaded hues. Such occasional details as a horned toad's spots and a smoothly curving rattlesnake's scales break up the art's overall blockiness. Western cliches are put to droll use here, and readers--particularly the very young--may respond favorably to the uncomplicated images and Frank's playful expressions (especially the mischievous glint in those shifty eyes). Ages 4-7.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0525449825
• ISBN 13: 9780525449829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32