Pulitzer Prize--winning author N. Scott Momaday's Circle of Wonder is the story of one lonely child's experience of a special magic at Christmas. Tolo is drawn to a miraculous fire circle, where the Elk, the Wolf, and the Eagle share "the real gift of the fire" with him.

"Momaday leads us on a journey of spiritual awakening, a journey we share with a lonely youngster named Tolo. The illustrations are evocative both in their richness of color and in their simplicity of image. As Native and Christian traditions merge, we experience 'the moment of Christmas and of a spirit that transcends time.'"--Native Peoples Magazine

"Circle of Wonder centers upon a world that is so dear to me as to be engraved on my memory forever. I was a boy of twelve when my parents and I moved to Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico in 1946. It was a place of singular beauty and wonder and delight. My first Christmas there was beyond my imagining. The night sky was radiant; the silence was vast and serene. In all the years of my life I have not gone farther into the universe. I have not known better the essence of peace and the sense of eternity. I have come no closer to the understanding of the most holy."--N. Scott Momaday