The tale was an interpretation of the many versions of a folk tale Knutson heard while living in the Andes, and her bold woodblock and watercolor art accompanies the yarn.
She had a special gift for making different cultures and stories familiar to children,” Ellen Stein, an editor at Minneapolis-based Lerner Publishing who worked on “Love and Roast Chicken,” told The Times on Wednesday. “She was really a storyteller who loved the idea of bringing different bits of culture to American children and children around the world. She won the Minnesota Book Award in 1991 for “How the Guinea Fowl Got Its Spots: A Swahili Tale of Friendship” and in 1994 for “Sungura and Leopard: A Swahili Trickster Tale.” Her fourth picture book, “Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale From the Andes Mountains,” drawn from her travels with her husband in Peru and Bolivia, was named a notable book for 2005 by the American Library Assn.
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