This book is recommended for secondary students. This book depicts a coyote and other animals as they meet a human girl, and the interactions in the mall that follow. ( )

This is a cute story by a Native author. It almost has an anti-consumerist message, but it stumbles a bit when the problem is paying for things instead of the things themselves. ( )

This is an updated native American morality tale, it teaches readers that people and relationships are more precious than objects.

A quick read, this silly tale starts out like a trickster story but ends up as a polemic against consumerism. It could make a fun read-aloud because it's written in verse, but the story line palls.

Because I didn't really enjoy the book, I couldn't come up with an interesting curricular connection. Poetry, maybe?

Here you'll read a story of a little girl pretending to be a reindeer who stumbles into a Christmas party at coyote's house. Together they bring the little girl back to 'civilization' and in the meantime make a trip to the mall which is overcrowded with Christmas shoppers. They buy some things, then return to make dinner and hang out.