Two Brothers and the Pesky 'Possum: Cupped Hands, Magic Tears

Two little Native boys grow up in the forest with their family. They try to obey their parents. But that doesn't always happen. Very often they become involved on an adventure of their own while on safari doing the family chores. One such excursion was derailed by the interference of a pesky possum. Not just an ordinary opossum, but one that had magical powers and could disappear and show up somewhere else. And strange and magical things happen to them.
Adapted from the series Cupped Hands, Magic Tears, a longer series of not-necessarily children stories of traveling thru time and place by the magic powers of tears and the force of will and love.