Ocean State Libraries

An Aboriginal creation story in which the Sun slowly brings life to the Earth.

A tale shared by the different native peoples of California tells how Coyote and other animals created the world and the people who came to live in it.

Bilingual Spanish-English Mexican folktale. In the Spring of Creation, the animals gather around a newly arrived creature and decide that it is funny and cute--a joke of Mother Nature--and work together to save this first human child from extinction. For primary (K-3) school children.