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How Two-Feather Was Saved from Loneliness:
An Abenaki Legend
C.J. Taylor
Illustrations: Teresa MacPhee
Montreal: Tundra Books, 1990
24 p. ISBN 0887762549
Ages 7-11
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This Abenaki legend describes the introduction of fire and corn into the world.
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I Can't Have Bannock, but the Beaver Has a Dam
Bernelda Wheeler
Illustrations: Herman Bekkering
Montreal: Tundra Books, 1990
24 p. ISBN 0887762549
Ages 4-7
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In this tale a young aboriginal boy, who must wait for the power lines to be repaired before his mother can make bannock, learns the role a beaver played in the power failure.
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Little Water and the Gift of Animals
C.J. Taylor
Montreal: Tundra Books, 1990
24 p. ISBN 0887762549
Ages 7-11
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In this Seneca legend, various woodland animals share their unique powers with their friend Little Water in an effort to restore health to a Native village.
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The Princess and the Sea Bear and Other Tsimshian Stories
Joan Skogan
Illustrations: Claudia Stewart
Winlaw, B.C.: Polestar Press, 1990
46 p. ISBN 091959154X
Ages 8-11
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In this collection of Tsimshian legends, nine tales are retold which centre around the village of Metlakatla near Prince Rupert Harbour.
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A Promise Is a Promise
Robert Munsch and Michael Kusugak
Illustrations: Vladyana Krykorka
Toronto: Annick Press, 1988
32 p. ISBN 1550370316 (Inuktitut), 155037009X (English)
Ages 5-8
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Allusha, ignoring her mother's warnings about fishing on the sea ice, encounters and then must outsmart the Quallupillugs, mythological creatures who are known to drag children under the ice to their frozen home.
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Sketco the Raven
Robert Ayre
Illustrations: Philip Surrey
Richmond Hill, Ont.: Scholastic Canada, 1991
183 p. ISBN 059074268X
Ages 9-13
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Fourteen West Coast raven stories are retold in this anthology of Athapaskan legends.
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Sooshewan: Child of the Beothuk
Donald Gale
Illustrations: Shawn Steffler
St. John's, Nfld.: Breakwater Books, 1988
32 p. ISBN 0920911153
Ages 6-11
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Sooshewan, a young Beothuk girl, follows the spirit of her grandmother in order to rescue her father who has been injured while out hunting.
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Spirit of the White Bison
Beatrice Culleton
Winnipeg: Pemmican, 1985
61 p. ISBN 0919143407
Ages 9-11
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The wide-scale killing of North America's wild buffalo after the coming of the Europeans is emphasized in this story told through the eyes of a white bison.
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Tales the Elders Told: Ojibway Legends
Basie H. Johnston
Illustrations: Shirley Cheecho
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1981
62 p. ISBN 0888542615
Ages 9-17
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Nine Ojibway legends are retold and accompanied by Native artist Shirley Cheechoo's paintings.
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The Trouble with Princesses
Christie Harris
Illustrations: Douglas Tait
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1984
170 p. ISBN 0771039980
Ages 9-17
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Seven legends of Native princesses from the Northwest Coast are presented.
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Very Last First Time
Jan Andrews
Illustrations: Ian Wallace
Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1985
32 p. ISBN 088899043X
Ages 5-8
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For the very first time a young Inuit girl ventures under the winter sea ice on her own to collect mussels during low tide.
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Winners
Mary-Ellen Lang Collura
Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1984
129 p. ISBN 0888331169
Ages 12-16
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After living in eleven foster homes within a period of eight years, fifteen-year-old Jordy finds returning to his home reserve to live with his grandfather a difficult transition.
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Ytek and the Arctic Orchard: An Inuit Legend
Garnet Hewitt
Illustrations: Heather Woodall
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1981.
38 p. ISBN 0888942389
Ages 8-13
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In this retelling of the Inuit legend the only son of an aging shaman must prove his worthiness by conquering his unknown Tornrack, a wild spirit which if fought and tamed will protect and guide its captor.
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