Best Selling Books by Paul Goble

Iktomi, the Plains Indian trickster, interrupts a powwow of the Mouse People and gets his head stuck in a buffalo skull. Asides and questions printed in italics may be addressed by the storyteller to listeners, encouraging them to make their own remarks about the action.

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

" Au village vivait une fille qui aimait beaucoup les chevaux... Elle les menait boire à la rivière. Elle leur parlait doucement et ils la suivaient... Elle savait où les trouver lorsqu''ils s''abritaient des tempêtes de neige hivernales. Et si l''un d''eux était blessé, elle s''en occupait... " Ainsi commence l''histoire d''une jeune Amérindienne amoureuse des chevaux sauvages. Hymne à la nature et à la liberté, cet album, au texte sensible et aux illustrations éclatantes de couleurs, est aussi un hommage rendu aux peuples et civilisations qui précédèrent l''arrivée des colons aux Etats-Unis.

Two young Sioux join in a raiding party to capture horses from some neighboring Crows.

A young hunter marries a female buffalo in the form of a beautiful maiden, but when his people reject her he must pass several tests before being allowed to join the buffalo nation.

Iktomi the trickster tries to fool a buzzard into carrying him across the river on the buzzard''s back.

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.

Crow Chief always warns the buffalo that hunters are coming, until Falling Star, a savior, comes to camp, tricks Crow Chief, and teaches him that all must share and live like relatives together.

Iktomi, the Plains Indian trickster, interrupts a powwow of the Mouse People and gets his head stuck in a buffalo skull. Asides and questions printed in italics may be addressed by the storyteller to listeners, encouraging them to make their own remarks about the action.

Relates Iktomi''s fruitless efforts to pick some buffalo berries.