Coyote is featured in each of these Aztec interpretations of Aesop's fables.The illustrations are set in the twentieth century.

With the help of other animals, Wise Old Coyote manages to acquire fire from the wicked Yellow Jacket sisters.

Coyote receives his comeuppance when he tries to take something that does not belong to him.

Coyote is tricked by some butterflies who laugh so hard about their joke that they cannot fly straight.

Enjoy the delightful illustrations of Lucy Jelinek as you experience the sometimes calamitous adventures of Coyote and a host of his friends and adversaries alike!

Coyote-a creator, a messenger, and, above all, a trickster-is at his mischievous best in these adventures retold from Native American sources. Brilliant illustrations depict the playful character in four tales: "Coyote Creates a New World," "Coyote and Mice," "Coyote and Woodpecker," and "Coyote and the Buffalo Bull."

Coyote, who has a nose for trouble, insists that the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in disaster for him.

"Coyote Tales are among the best loved in Native American folklore, and those collected by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing at the end of the nineteenth century have well survived the test of time. This collection of authentic stories, extracted from the classic Zuni Folk Tales, offers modern readers of all ages a new appreciation of magic and myth as celebrated by the Zuni Indians of western New Mexico."--BOOK JACKET