Books by John Bierhorst and Complete Book Reviews
John Bierhorst, Author, Robert Andrew Parker, Joint Author Marshall Cavendish Children's Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5058-0
As in their The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, Bierhorst and Parker tell a creation story from Native American folklore. Here Bierhorst combs the shared oral traditions of the peoples of what is now California. Coyote creates the world, with the help...
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John Bierhorst, Author, Robert Andrew Parker, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15 (30p) ISBN 978-0-688-10680-5
In this story from the Six Nations, a husband ``in the sky country'' grows jealous of his wife's pregnancy and pushes her through a hole. She lands softly on the back of a turtle, and creates the land, the stars and the sun. She also gives birth to...
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John Bierhorst, Author, Judy Pedersen, Illustrator MacMillan Publishing Company $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-709735-1
As quiet as the wind ``sweetly . . . rushing through the trees'' and as soft as the song of the stars that ``sing on the road of spirits,'' this remarkable collection will soothe and comfort young readers. The 50-plus poems are rooted in the...
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John Bierhorst, Author, Wendy Watson, Illustrator MacMillan Publishing Company $15.95 (46p) ISBN 978-0-02-709780-1
Subtitled A Native American Aesop's Fables, this is a unique collection of 20 fables, translated and retold by Bierhorst, an acknowledged expert. According to him, these tales were adapted by Aztec Indian storytellers in the 1500s, from a Spanish...
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John Bierhorst, Author, Wendy Watson, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-80739-8
PW called this retelling of 20 Aesop's fables, as interpreted by 16th-century Aztecs, ""an interesting and valuable effort."" Ages 7-10. (July)
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John Bierhorst, Author, Wendy Watson, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-33550-2
The creators of Doctor Coyote: A Native American Aesop's Fables and In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations offer a third collection, Is My Friend At Home?: Pueblo Fireside Tales retold by John Bierhorst, illus. by...
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