Paperback
(Troll Associates (1993-1996), March 15, 1996)
Learn about different cultural myths and folktales through the Legends of the World series. Books include: (1) Opossum and the Great Firemaker: A Mexican Legend; (2) The Hummingbird King: A Guatemalan Legend; (3) Peach Boy: A Japanese Legend; (4) The Golden Slipper: A Vietnamese Legend; (5) Prince of the Stable: A Hungarian Legend.
Relates the traditional Cora Indian tale in which Opossum outwits the larger and more powerful Iguana and returns the stolen fire to the people of the earth.
A Peruvian rendition of the Great Flood story, in which a llama warns the people and animals to seek shelter on Huillcacato to avoid the rising sea, Mamacocha.