Tom Pohrt
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Coyote-a creator, a messenger, and, above all, a trickster-is at his mischievous best in these adventures retold from Native American sources. Brilliant illustrations depict the playful character in four tales: "Coyote Creates a New World," "Coyote and Mice," "Coyote and Woodpecker," and "Coyote and the Buffalo Bull."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Crow and Weasel, two friends, travel north together and meet Eskimos, who welcome the young travelers to their hunting camp on the edge of the tundra. Together they share stories, exchange gifts, and enlarge their idea of what is wondrous.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Thrown into a river by a cruel human, a young tiger-striped cat fights to survive amid feral cats and other creatures near Roxville train station, aided by Mike, an eleven-year-old foster boy who is not allowed to have a pet.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Tom Pohrt spent years gathering those poems of Wendell Berry's he imagined children might read and appreciate, making sketches to accompany his selection. Over the past several years a dialogue has evolved in which the poet has come to advise the illustrator on the natural history of the animals and plants seen so intimately in the poems ... The resulting volume of twenty-one poems includes dozens of watercolors in what amounts to a visual meditation...
