folklore

Twelve-year-old twins use their weapons, lightning arrows and magic feathers, to defend their village from the Monster Birds.

The animals in the Amazon rainforest find a way to trick Iwariwa the cayman into sharing the fire he uses to cook his food.

Mbeku, the greedy tortoise, gets himself invited to the banquet in Skyland, but is trapped with no way to get back to Earth in this Igbo tale of why the tortoise has a checkered shell.

With the help of a blue crane, a mother dove rescues her babies from a not-so-clever jackal.

Turtle's shell is cracked when the wolves plot to stop his boastful ways.

Two very large and silly birds accidentally create thunder and lightning as a way to warn the Choctaw people of coming rainstorms.

Fifteen traditional tales follow the adventures of Rabbit, the Cherokee trickster.

Retellings of seven stories about animal origins taken from Koasati Creek, Navajo, and Tsimshian traditions.

Coyote has the delicate task of creating the first human being. He calls all the animals together to ask their advice.

Coyote is tricked by some butterflies who laugh so hard about their joke that they cannot fly straight.