Coyote. Anansi. Brer Rabbit. Trickster characters have long been a staple of folk literature and are a natural choice for the overarching subject of acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's third ?mythic? anthology. "The Coyote Road" features a remarkable range of authors, each with his or her fictional look at a trickster character. These authors include Holly Black ("The Spiderwick Chronicles"), Charles de Lint ("The Blue Girl"), Ellen Klages ("The Green Glass Sea"), Kelly Link ("Magic for Beginners"), Patricia A. McKillip ("Old Magic"), and Jane Yolen. Terri Windling provides a comprehensive introduction to the trickster myths of the world, and the entire book is highlighted by the remarkable decorations of Charles Vess. "The Coyote Road" is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary fantastic fiction.

 

This book was recognised in the Anthology category by the Locus Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.

There are 523 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2007 by Penguin Putnam Inc .

Terri Windling has been a fiction editor for more than thirty years and has won many awards for her work. She has published more than forty anthologies (often in partnership with Ellen Datlow), as well as her own novels, children's books, and nonfiction on fantasy, folklore, and mythic arts. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award for "outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field as writer, editor, artist, educator, and mentor. " Her adult novel The Wood Wife won the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year, her collection The Armless Maiden was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and the YA anthology Teeth (co-edited with Ellen Datlow) was short-listed for the Shirley Jackson Award. A former New Yorker, Terri lives with her husband and daughter in a small country village in Devon, England. "If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling-as writer, as painter, as editor, as muse. " -Jane Yolen