Spirits of the Wild: The World's Great Nature Myths

In the hands of any writer, these stories would be interesting for their content alone, which explains through the enchanting antics of animals and people the origins of many of nature's subtle wonders around the world: the robin's red breast, the croak of the frog, the laugh of the kookaburra, the colors of butterfly. In the hands of acclaimed nature writer Gary Ferguson, however, the myths become reality and nature looms larger than life. In the folk literature tradition of Aesop and the Brothers Grimm. Take them into the woods with you, read them to your children.