Favorite North American Indian Legends (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Dover Children's Thrift Classics

Charming stories — brimming with humor, whimsy, and imagination — include an Algonquin tale of how Glooskap conquered the Great Bull-Frog; "The Meeting of the Wild Animals," a Tsimshian myth recounting how all the animals came to fear the porcupine; "The Man Who Married the Moon" a Pueblo story; others. 6 full-page illustrations.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (July 13, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486278220
• ISBN-13: 978-0486278223
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #417,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent source for multi-cultural studies involving Native Americans, August 6, 2010

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Favorite North American Indian Legends (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) (Paperback)

The myths and legends of a culture will tell you a great deal about their thought patterns and what was considered important. The thirteen legends in this book are about a great many things, from the origin of the world to how animals and humans are to interact. The legends and the tribe(s) from which they were derived are as follows:

*) "How Glooskap Conquered the Great Bull-Frog", from the Passamaquoddy and Micmac tribes
*) "How the Toad and Porcupine Lost Their Noses", from the Micman tribe
*) "The Meeting of the Wild Animals", from the Tsimshian tribe
*) "The Story of Grizzly Bear and Beaver", from the Tsimshian tribe
*) "How Master Lox as a Raccoon Killed the Bear and the Black Cats", from the Passamaquoddy tribe
*) "The Ants That Pushed on the Sky", from the Pueblo tribe
*) "The Little Boy Man", from the Sioux tribe
*) "The Daughter of the Sun", from the Cherokee tribe
*) "The Girl Who Married the Star", from the Sioux tribe
*) "The Man Who Married the Moon", from the Isleta Pueblo tribe
*) "The Laugh-maker", from the Sioux tribe
*) "The Bear Man", from the Micmac tribe
*) "The Friendly Skeleton", from the Iroquois tribe

This book would be an excellent source of material for multi-cultural studies in late elementary school or middle school classes where the goal is to cover Native American cultures.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fine, December 22, 2010

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This review is from: Favorite North American Indian Legends (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) (Paperback)

Got it fine and nice books. Waiting for the next 2 Thank you. Also got A Pot O Gold Irish Stories etc. Nicer than I expected it to be.

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stange little stories to make children happy, April 13, 2007

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R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Favorite North American Indian Legends (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) (Paperback)

Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines
Reading these stories reminded me of the Australian stories.
It's time your kids learned to think outside the box...
with these Aesop's fables on steroids.
Aesops Fables/spec (Illustrated Junior Library)
Some of these are as scary as camping ghost stories.
There is a lot of Native American heritage that survives
and these stories are the creme of the crop!