Fire Race: A Karuk Coyote Tale

"[A] gracefully narrated, arrestingly illustrated myth originating from the Karuk people" about a coyote who steals fire and shares it with the world (Publishers Weekly).

There was a time when the animals had no way to keep warm in the winter, because the miserly Yellow Jackets kept fire for themselves at their mountaintop home. But wise old Coyote devised a plan to trick the Yellow Jackets and steal a burning ember. As the Yellow Jackets give chase, Coyote passes the ember to Eagle, who t...