Star Stories: Constellation Tales from Around the World

The magic in these stories shines through despite a stolid narrative style and editorial selections skewed toward well-known Greek tales, including standard retellings of the myths of Andromeda, Heracles, and Pegasus. Beyond those, readers will encounter an Anishinaabe tale of a bold fisher who broadens a hole in the sky to let summer into a world of perpetual winter, a Navajo telling of a trickster coyote who scattered stars across the sky, Incan llamas seeking celestial high ground, and a Tongan myth of a girl and her parents who, in seeking a lost pet shark, are turned into the three stars in the belt of Orion. The stars sprinkled across the pages and Wilx’s detailed folkloric illustrations are accented with dull gold, adding some extra sidereal luster. Ages 7–12. ([em]July) [/em]