TURKEY BROTHER, AND OTHER TALES

Workmanlike retellings of nine tales from the Iroquois, most of them only two or three pages long. The title story—strongest in the collection and, at ten pages, the longest—contains a satisfying twist on a familiar motif (the traveling hero disobeys his uncle's cautionary prohibitions without disaster, easily overcoming the monsters who emerge at the forbidden spots) and a strong ending when the same hero impresses his new father-in-law, a chief, by spitting wampum but an impostor challenged to do the same can only come up with dead worms and lizards. A lightweight addition.