Raven, who loves to play tricks, seeks food and shelter after a storm destroys her nest, and the reader helps her make choices as she encounters many other creatures, some friendly and some dangerous.
Mr. Twit is a foul and smelly man with bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard. Mrs. Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye. Together they make the nastiest couple you could ever hope not to meet. Down in their garden, the Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family locked in a cage. But not for much longer, because the monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits, once and for all.
As several bizarre murders occur in a Canadian ski resort town, Sam Hunt, a Kinchuinick Indian who has turned his back on his cultural roots, begins to have blackouts and awakens with blood on his face.
Some tricky women teach people simple lessons in this bilingual collection of ten Southwestern folktales--updated from the original edition with five new stories.
In this story based on The Emperor's new clothes, when Mayor Peacock commissions Travis the Tornado Tamer to protect the town, the weasel builds a transparent cover that he claims only smart and special people can see. Includes activities.
In Miami, Florida, seeking her younger sister, sixteen-year-old Ashline Wilde, a Polynesian volcano goddess, joins forces with other reincarnated deities, but trickster Colt's diabolical plans threaten them all.
