Featured Titles: Coyote's Wild Home & Are you lost my little one?
Coyote's Wild Home By Barbara and Lily Kingsolver
Published by The Gryphon Press
World Rights Available
Age Range: 9 - 90+
New York Times best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver and environmental educator Lily Kingsolver collaborate on their first children’s book, Coyote’s Wild Home.
The book takes us into the woods, meadows, and streams of an Appalachian forest where a girl and a coyote pup each find their first woodland adventures. On their separate journeys into the wilderness with a beloved family member, the quietly intertwined paths of child and coyote will surprise and enchant young readers.
On young Diana’s camping trip with her grandfather, he shows her how to read the signs of all the other animals who make their homes in the forest. When the distant howl of coyotes frightens her, Grandpa explains that they're not interested in hunting humans, just talking to each other. As he and Diana explore the woods together, Grandpa helps her understand the important work predators do in keeping the wilderness healthy.
Meanwhile, Coyote Pup follows his aunt through the woods, imitating her every move, hoping to catch his dinner. When they watch Grandpa and Diana from a distance, he feels afraid, but Auntie steers him clear of humans, directing his attention instead toward mice and voles. With lessons in patience, listening, and following his nose, it’s a day of big tasks for a small pup.
With its richly detailed illustrations by artist, Paul Mirocha, and gentle biology lessons, this story of two young explorers invites readers to imagine wilderness as a place to be protected, loved, and shared.
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A story of two families, one human, one coyote, and the world we share. There is much to learn here... and much to feel. Lily and Barbara Kingsolver's text and Paul Mirocha's paintings present an experience of the wild you will carry with you for a long time. — Marion Dane Bauer, Newbery Honor winner, author of On My Honor, Sunshine, The Stuff of Stars, and many others.
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This gentle and generous story guides readers through what bonds humans and animals - and conveys the respect we owe to the natural world. — Eliot Schrefer, two-time finalist for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature, author of The Ape Quartet: Endangered, Threatened, Rescued, and Orphaned, and many others.
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This lushly illustrated book (with its gorgeous endpapers!) draws us into the separate lives of a playful coyote pup and a curious child as they each venture into the forest for the first time. The story deftly raises important questions - Can we adapt to change? Can we better understand how humans and animals intersect with one another? - and offers ways to coexist. — Joyce Sidman, The Robert F. Silbert Medal winner for The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science, author of Hello, Earth!: Poems to Our Planet, and many others.
Barbara Kingsolver grew up in rural Kentucky and earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona before becoming a freelance writer and author. At various times in life she has lived in England, France, and the Canary Islands, and has worked in Europe, Africa, Asia, Mexico, and South America. She spent two decades in Tucson, Arizona, before moving to southwestern Virginia where she currently resides.
Her fifteen books include short stories, essay collections, poetry, and seven novels. In the first decade of the new millennium, following her well-known work The Poisonwood Bible, she published two novels (prior to this one) and three non-fiction books including Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a narrative of her family’s locavore year that helped launch a modern transition in America’s food culture. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than two dozen languages, and has been adopted into the core literature curriculum in high schools and colleges throughout the nation. Kingsolver was named one the most important writers of the 20th Century by Writers Digest. In 2000 she received the National Humanities Medal, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts. Critical acclaim for her books includes multiple awards from the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association, among many others. The Poisonwood Bible was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Orange Prize, and won the national book award of South Africa, before being named an Oprah Book Club selection. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle won numerous prizes including the James Beard award. The Lacuna won Britain’s prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010, and last year she was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work.
Paul Mirocha. A versatile designer with decades of experience and strong visual skills in graphic design, web, digital illustration, and digital image making.
His work is highly crafted, sophisticated, and detailed, yet has emotional appeal. As a trained user experience (UX) designer passionate about encouraging creative thinking and human-centered design, Paul's work communicates through a deep understanding of the audience.
Are you lost my little one? by Ekaterini Kakouri
Published by Little Goose
Rights sold
Greek
Age Range: 4 - 9
Little Phoebe, a magical blend of happiness and wisdom, lives on a farm surrounded by her animals. Chickens and geese coexist harmonically, but how do they feel about someone who is… different?
Spring comes and with the new season, a life-changing experience. An adventurous one!
The sun rises and a loud whining startles little Phoebe. Outside chickens and geese are busy pecking at Alto, a proud black steed with powerful long legs. The animal is big and beautiful. It trots across the farm with majestic strides. Chickens and geese don’t like this. What they do like is to complain. About everything!
Alto lowers his head and sadly turns away from them. And that is when Phoebe steps in. She talks to the chickens, the geese, and the horse, and reminds them that although they are different, there is no reason they shouldn’t live in harmony and peace.
The quarrel has Phoebe pondering. She decides to go for a walk and takes the lengthy path that leads to the seaside. And that is when she runs across a small furry goat. The animal stares at her with its wide, beautiful eyes. It is lost. It is so small it can barely walk. Phoebe picks it up and carries the little goat back to the farm, just in time to find shelter from a roaring thunderstorm. The little goat is clearly distressed by the drumming rain, but Phoebe manages to turn this event into a classical sonata, conducting an imaginary orchestra that turns the sound of raindrops into soothing music. The little goat can finally find peace and rest in its newfound haven.
The following morning, chickens and geese gather around to stare at the newcomer.
“Who is the little one?”
“Will it stay long?”
Ekaterini Kakouri is an actress and writer with academic training in Theater in Athens and Florence, and post- graduate studies in Cinema at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, in New York City. Ekaterini is known as a writer for the illustrated book Are you lost my little one? which was nominated for Greece’s Literature Awards 2021, for numerous theatrical plays and as the creator of original international animated Tv series.
While working in Theatre and Cinema, Ekaterini was a teacher to children with typical and/or non-typical development. She then founded Little Goose, a company that takes pride in its illustrated stories. Ekaterini was a priestess during the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics in 2011, at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens.
The book Are you lost my little one? has been turned into the animated Tv Series of 10 episodes, Cycladia, whose creator is author Ekaterini Kakouri.
Cycladia was pitched at Cannes Film Market and it was invited by Cartoon Springboard last October, in Madrid. The project is in development stage and one of the co-writers is Barry Keating, current writer of Batman and Robocop video games. Robert Englund, Michael Madsen and Billy Baldwin will give their voices to the animals of the story.