Rohmer, Harriet

A brave young Miskito Indian follows his wife from the land of the living to the spirit world.

An Aztec myth recounting the creation and destruction of the world by the deities of the four great elements.

Fourteen artists and picture book illustrators present paintings with descriptions of ancestors or other sources of inspiration that have inspired them.

A Taino Indian legend about a young boy and his search for the healing caimoni tree.

This Miskito Indian legend set in seventeenth-century Nicaragua illustrates the impact of the first European traders on traditional life.

An Aztec legend recounting how a giant red ant helped the ancient god, Quetzalcoatl, bring corn to the first, hungry people of the earth.