Best Friends: Poems

By Lee B. Hopkins

Back in the beforetime

By Jane Louise Curry

A retelling of twenty-two legends about the creation of the world from a variety of California Indian tribes.

The wedding of the rat family

By Carol Kendall

Aspiring to a marriage of power and influence for their daughter rat, two rat parents arrange a calamitous wedding with a member of the cat family.

Who are you?

By John Schindel

When Brown Bear's parents tell him that he is too small to attend the party they are giving, he dresses up in their clothes and arrives as a mysterious guest whom no one knows.

How Raven Brought Light to People

By Dixon Ann., Ann Dixon

Raven gives the sun, the moon, and the stars to the people of the world by tricking the great chief who is hoarding them in three boxes.

I'll meet you halfway

By John Schindel

After not seeing one another for a long time, two friends, Titus Turtle and Fuller Frog, each bring a special gift when they set out to meet for a reunion.

Hold up the sky

By Jane Louise Curry

Retells twenty-six tales from Native Americans whose traditional lands were in Texas and the Southern Plains, and provides a brief introduction to the history of each tribe.

Zack s Alligator

By James Watts, Shirley Mozelle

The Irish Americans

By J. F. Watts

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Irish, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.

Understanding the Pentateuch as a Scripture

By James W. Watts