Is My Friend at Home?: Peublo Fireside Tales

The creators of Doctor Coyote: A Native American Aesop's Fables and In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations offer a third collection, Is My Friend At Home?: Pueblo Fireside Tales retold by John Bierhorst, illus. by Wendy Watson. These seven friendship-themed stories, originally told around Hopi firesides in northern Arizona, are reminiscent of fables, though many more strongly resemble pourquoi tales. Watson's animated renderings of the wide-eyed animal characters add zip to the pages. (Sept.)