Let me start by saying, “I work at a Native American school.”  That said, skip this book and go directly to the first and fourth web site listed on page 40 of the book. If by stories they mean bits of trivia, then this book is just ‘OK’, but if by story they mean tales that will engage the reader, this book falls flat.  Most of the stories are mere crumbs, four maybe five sentences, leaving the reader wanting more which is never given. There are five page long  ‘retelling(s)’  but the artwork on the opposite page looks more Eastern-European than Native American. Each turn of the page usually brings a photo of an artifact of something associated with Native Americans, but often as not, it is not tied to a story or legend. Four times the book tries to link American Indian myths with similar myths in other cultures: Africa, China, and Scandinavia , but each time they are grasping at straws.

American Indians are too vast and too diverse to be effectively covered in 47 pages.