Books with author Paul Goble

Iktomi, a Plains Indian trickster, attempts to defeat a boulder with the assistance of some bats, in this story which explains why the Great Plains are covered with small stones.

"The stories in this volume are condensed by Paul Goble from the following titles originally published by Orchard Books: Ikotomi and the Boulder (1988), Ikotomi and the Berries (1989), Ikotomi and the Ducks (1990), Ikoyomi and the Buffalo Skull (1991), Ikotomi and the Buzzard (1994), and Ikotomi and the Coyote (1998)."--T.p. verso.

After tricking some prairie dogs into becoming his dinner, Iktomi is himself outwitted by Coyote

The origination of the tipi and what it has come to symbolize is told in this Blackfoot legend by the Caldecott Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses.

Reflects on how we are all connected to everything in nature and how all things in nature relate to their Creator

Relates the Blackfoot Indian legend in which Star Boy gains the Sun's forgiveness for his mother's disobedience and is allowed to return to the Sky World.

A tale based on a Blackfoot myth finds six orphaned brothers, neglected by their people and taunted by peers, abandoning the earth for the Above World, where they become the constellation known as the Pleiades. Reprint.

Dispatched to learn what has become of the buffalo herds that sustain their people, two Great Plains Native American scouts encounter a mysterious spirit woman who helps them out of their predicament. 20,000 first printing.

Iktomi the trickster tries to fool a buzzard into carrying him across the river on the buzzard's back. Asides printed in italics may be used by the storyteller to encourage listeners to make their own remarks about the action, as in traditional Iktomi storytelling.

Iktomi, a Plains Indian trickster, attempts to defeat a boulder with the assistance of some bats, in this story which explains why the Great Plains are covered with small stones.

A tale of the earth's life begins when water birds and animals dive for mud so that the Creator can make dry land after a flood and continues to describe the time when people were given fire and bows.

A mysterious man shows Iktomi how to send his eyes up a post and then bring them back down, but no more than four times a day, and when Iktomi performs his new trick a fifth time--he loses his eyes.