Why Opossum is gray
Subtitle: a story from Mexico
By: retold by Janet Palazzo-Craig ; illustrated by Charles Reasoner.
Contributors: Reasoner, Charles, ill.
Series: First-start legends
Publisher: Troll
Published: 1996
Place of publication: [Mahwah, N.J.?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Cora Indians -- Folklore.; Tales -- Mexico.; Opossums -- Folklore.; Cora Indians -- Folklore.; Indians of Mexico -- Folklore.; Opossums -- Folklore.
Description: Relates the traditional Cora Indian tale in which Opossum outwits the larger and more powerful Iguana and returns the stolen fire to the people of the earth.