The Precious Gift: A Navaho Creation Myth

by Ellen Jackson

Book Overview

A drop of fresh water must be retrieved in order for First Man to create a stream or lake in his parched homeland, and the members of his village are unable to do so, but, through an unexpected twist... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689804806
• ISBN13: 9780689804809
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Great book!

This is a wonderful book that has received a number of awards. The main elements of the story are clearly in the public domain as they appeared in Franc Johnson Newcomb's NAVAHO FOLK TALES published in 1967. In the introduction to that book Franc Johnson says that the stories he collected were "common to every Navaho household." Others have used this material, as has Ms. Keams.