Van Laan, Nancy

A retelling of the Blackfoot legend about the ritual performed before the buffalo hunt.

Presents three rhyming stories featuring a stingy and mean old doctor, a disembodied head, a missing hairy toe, and other scary things.

When the weather changes and the ever-falling snow threatens to engulf all the animals, it is Crow who flies up to receive the gift of fire from the Great Sky Spirit.

Moose takes a walk, takes a nap under a tree that Beaver is gnawing, and finally joins all his friends in making an almost perfect snow creature with antlers.