Record details

• ISBN: 0525460047
• ISBN: 9780525460046
• Physical Description: 74 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
• Publisher: New York : Dutton Children's Books, [1998]
• Copyright: ©1998

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Crying for the moon -- Anancy and the flipflap bird (Afro-Caribbean) -- The drowned moon (English) -- The woman who flew to the moon (Chinese) -- Moonlore -- The hare in the moon (Hindu) -- Moonchildren (Norse) -- The cheese in the pond (English) -- The circle of beasts (Zodiac myths) -- Seven sisters (Australian) -- The divided lovers (Japanese) -- Starlore -- The price of vanity (Greek) -- White Star Woman and Great Star (Pawnee) -- About the stories.

Reading the sky -- The giant's skull (Norse) -- Mother sky (Egyptian) -- A handfull of quartz (Navajo) -- Days of old -- War in heaven (Latvian) -- The king's fire dogs (Korean) -- Temples of the sun -- The heavenly archer (Chinese) -- The fifth sun (Mayan) -- When the sun hid (Japanese) -- Sunlore -- In the sun's house (Navajo) -- Phaëton's last ride (Greek).

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Mythology > Juvenile literature.