Michelle Tsosie Sisneros

KOKOPELLI’S GIFT

“Foreword Magazine Book of the Year”

Kokopelli’s Gift, by Kathleen Bryant, illustrated by Michelle Tsosie Sisneros, has won the bronze medal in the Children’s Picture Book category of Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards. These prestigious awards are offered each year to books of outstanding merit.

The illustrator

MICHELLE TSOSIE SISNEROS

lives in

Santa Clara Pueblo.

Her heritage is

Santa Clara, Navajo, Laguna and Mission Indian.

“The images I paint are from the people who touch my life in a

profound way and the Mother Earth I live on.”

MICHELLE TSOSIE SISNEROS follows a legacy of

notable Santa Clara painters. She began painting as a child,

and developed that into a full time painting career.

She has won numerous awards and honors for her paintings, including at Santa Fe Indian Market, the Gallup Ceremonial, and the

Sundance Festival.

Kokopelli’s Gift is her first illustrated children’s book.

The author KATHILEEN BRYANT has written five novels

and numerous magazine articles for Arizona Highway, Sedona Magazine, and other publications. Kokopelli’s Gift is her first children’s book, born out of her curiosity about flute player legends and rock art imagery.

The story’s setting was inspired by a hot summer afternoon at Palatki,

an ancestral pueblo built into the red sandstone cliffs of

Sedona, Arizona.

She volunteers as a guide for the Red Rock Rangers District of the U.S. Forest service, talking to visitors about archaeology in the

Sedona area.

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