legends

When his warning rattle fails to protect Soft Child from the other desert creatures, the Sky God equips him with a powerful way to defend himself.

Twelve-year-old Mary Jemison took her peaceful days on her family's farm in eastern Pennsylvania for granted. But on a spring day in 1758, something happned that changed her life forever. A band of warriors invaded the house and took the Jemison family captive.

A collection of animal tales first told by the Plains Indians, interwoven with factual information about the Lakota people.

When Fox tells Mole she must move out of her tunnel to make way for a new path, Mole finds an ingenious way to save her home.

A collection of traditional tales from numerous North American Indian tribes, woven into one story that relates the adventures of one boy as he grows to manhood.

Retells the Comanche Indian legend of how a little girl's sacrifice brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas.

Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw dedicated to fighting tyranny.

Presents abridged versions of three previously-published tales of clever and crafty Spider, also called Anansi.

An illustrated retelling, accompanied by brief histories, of two well-known tales, including "Hansel and Gretel, " in which a lost brother and sister meet a wicked witch in the forest and, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin, " the Pied Piper exacts a terrible revenge on the greedy citizens of Hamelin.

A retelling of the Cheyenne and Sioux myth about the Great Race, a contest called by the Creator to settle the question whether man or buffalo should have supremacy and thus become the guardians of Creation.