A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.

Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vastness. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores, whether it was the Vikings, the Irish, the Chinese, Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south, the Atlantic evolved in the world's growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water bounded by the Americas to the West, and by...

A collection of Indian legends about the stars, moon, and nighttime sky.

"Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows...

Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.

Retells the traditional Pacific Northwest Native American story of the man who climbs Mount Rainier to collect a valuable shell and discovers what is important in life.

In this retelling of the Indian fable, seven blind mice discover different parts of an elephant and argue about its appearance.

Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.

In this retelling of a classic folk tale, a farmer learns that the best man for the job of farm manager is a girl, as his clever daughter bests his brawny sons in a competition.

In this folktale explaining why the sea has tides, an old woman threatens to pull the rock from the hole in the ocean floor if Sky Spirit does not honor his promise to give her shelter.