(2) K-3 Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. This is a welcome reissue of a story composed by a Spanish missionary with the assistance of Aztec poets. The familiar story, translated from the Aztec, soars with fresh, flamboyantly reverent images and is illustrated with Cooney's sumptuous paintings. Also available in Spanish.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1984

(3) K-3 Translated by Francisco Gonzalez Aramburu. Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. In this Spanish edition of Spirit Child, the Aztec interpretation of the Nativity, the translation is accurate and readable, making this classic book accessible to a much wider audience. Also available in English.

Reviewer: Tim Wadham

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker. Bierhorst retells a creation tale that is shared by a number of Native American groups on the West Coast. Coyote, the gopher brothers, and other animals from "a world before this one" create mountains, plants, rivers, and stars and plant the seeds that will become people to populate the earth. The spare watercolor illustrations complement this quietly appealing story.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(2) 4-6 Once again, a Bierhorst collection is uncompromising and inviting, scholarly and accessible, otherworldly and down-to-earth. Unlike European fairies with their reputation for malevolence or at least trickery, the "little people" in the twenty-two brief tales assembled here from throughout the Americas are benevolent beings, dangerous only to those who would transgress the goodness offered. Bib.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.