Monster Slayer: A Navajo Folktale
Vee Browne, Baje Whitethorne
Paperback
(Rising Moon, May 1, 1995)
A Navajo Folktale, retold by Lee Browne and illustrated by Baje Whitethorne, two talented Navajo people. The book received the National Cowboy Hall of Fame "Best Juvenile Book" Western Heritage Award. A terrible monster is plaguing the Anasazi villages of the Southwest's canyon country, so much so that the villagers are afraid to plant their crops. Who will save them from this monster's wrath? The Twins, 12-year old sons of Changing Woman, respond to the villagers' cries for help . . . and the tale unfolds.
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