Foreword / Paula Morris - Publisher's note -- Introduction / Dr. Eldon Yellowhron -- An unwanted two-spirit (Nigeria) / Chukwu Sunday Abel -- The man who lost himself (Nigeria) / Chukwu Sunday Abel -- The creation story of the four suns (Aztec) -- Xolotil creates the parents of mankind (Aztec) -- Manco Capac founds Cuzco (Inca) -- Anansi, the world, and the stories (Akan/Caribbean/Black British) / Laura Barker -- Musoke the moon-boy (Uganda) -- The story of Nsangi and the apes (Uganda) -- Goso, the teacher (Zanzibar, Tanzanian Coast) -- Potter's field (Māori, Ngati Mutunga) / Shelley Burne-Field -- Sunset on Mars (Fiji) / Gina Cole -- Mythology of Mindanao (The Philippines) -- Legend and song of the daughter and the slave (The Ndau tribe of Eastern Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi) -- The winning of Halai Auna at the house of Tuina (Yana people, Native American) -- The finding of fire (Yana people, Native American) -- The boy hunter who never sacrificed to the deer he had slain, or The origin of the Society of Rattlesnakes (Zuni people, Native American) -- Of the pretty girl and the seven jealous women (Southern Nigeria) -- The fate of Essido and his evil companions (Southern Nigeria) -- Finding home (Gumbaynggirr people) / Kylie Fennell -- The fable of the origin of the people of Peru (Inca) / Pedro Sarmient de Gamboa -- Sinking cities (Nahua and Yaqui Nations, Mexico) / Sophie Garcia -- Grass dancer (Native American) / Owl Goingback -- The first Tui Tonga (Tonga) -- The origin of the Magellan Clouds (Tonga) -- Scarface (Blackfeet Nation, Native American) -- Origin of the medicine pipe (Blackfeet Nation, Native American) -- Imitate (Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, Native American) / Shane Hawk -- Whole (Igbo) / Somto Ibezue -- The mother of the world (Native American) -- The Wahconda's son (Native American) -- The origin of women (Native American) -- Hua, King of Hana (Hawaii) / His Hawaiian Majesty Kalakaua -- Kelea, the surf-rider of Maui (Hawaii) / His Hawaiian Majesty Kalakaua -- Kaala, the flower of Lanai (Hawaii) / His Hawaiian Majesty Kalakaua --
Little pieces of flint (Monacan Indian Nation, Native American) / D.K. Lawhorn -- The story of creation (Pina people, Native American) -- The story of the flood (Pina people, Native American) -- The call of ancestors (Zimbabwe) / Tsitsi Mapepa -- Yeredzo River (Zimbabwe) / Tsitsi Mapepa -- Morena-Y-A-Letsatsi, or the Sun Chief (Lesotho, Southern Africa) -- How Ah-Hā'-Le stole the sun for the Valley People (Native American) -- The birth of Wek'-Wek and the creation of man (Hool-poom'-ne tribe, Native American) -- Buuts' ka luuk' (Mexico) / Arnoldo Millán Zubia -- Three princesses (Māori) / Paula Morris -- Red Christmas (Māori) / Paula Morris -- A mother's lament (Comanche Nation) / Weyodi OldBear -- Biter's tale (Comanche Nation) / Weyodi OldBear -- Goonur, the woman-doctor (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) -- The legend of the Pleiades (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) -- A Mayan story (Guatemala) / Claudia Recinos Seldeen -- Māui tames the sun (Māori) -- The creation (Māori) -- The coming of kūmara (Māori) -- Patupaiarehe (Māori) -- Taniwha (Māori) -- Denizens of the sea (Māori) -- A short history, purporting to give the origin of the Hausa Nation and the story of their conversion to the Mohammedan Religion (Hausa people, Nigeria) / Maalam Shaihua -- How brothers and sisters first came to quarrel and hate each other (Hausa people, Nigeria) / Maalam Shaihua -- Creation story of the Mixtecs (Aztec) -- The Mayan creation story (Maya) -- The myth of Huathiacuri (Inca) -- A story of the rise and fall of the Toltecs (Aztec) -- The creation of the third book (Maya) -- King Gumbi and his lost daughter (Manyema people of the Congo) -- The adventures of Saruti (The Congo and Central Africa) -- The search for the home of the sun -- (The Congo and Central Africa) -- Nunda the Slayer and origin of the One-Eyed (Swahili-speaking peoples, East Africa) --
Binti Ali the Clever (Swahili-speaking peoples, East Africa)
Lila and Fila (Swahili-speaking peoples, East Africa)
The Wakilindi saga : Mbega, a child of ill omen (Swahili-speaking peoples, East Africa)
How the moon first came into the sky (Nigeria and Cameroon) / Okun Asere of Mfamosing, of the Ekoi people
How sun and moon went up to the sky (Nigeria and Cameroon) / Okun Asere of Mfamosing, of the Ekoi people
How the first rain came (Nigeria and Cameroon) / Okun Asere of Mfamosing, of the Ekoi people
How all the rivers first came on Earth (Nigeria and Cameroon) / Okun Asere of Mfamosing, of the Ekoi people
When angels come knocking (Curve Lake First Nations) / Drew Hayden Taylor
The funeral fire (Chippewa tribe, Native American)
The snail and the beaver (Osage Nation, Native American)
The three sisters (Abenaki Nation, Native American) / Brigit Truex
Beaver's tail (Abenaki Nation, Native American) / Brigit Truex
Woodchuck winter (Abenaki Nation, Native American) / Brigit Truex
Confusion of tongue (Ngarrindjeri, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) / David Unaipon
The Gherawhar (Goanna) (Ngarrindjeri, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) / David Unaipon
Whowie (Ngarrindjeri, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) / David Unaipon
Why all the animals peck at the selfish owl : the coming of the light (Ngarrindjeri, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) / David Unaipon
The water rat who discovered the secret of fire and how it was taken from him by the eagle hawk (Ngarrindjeri, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) / David Unaipon
A wonderful bun bar rang (Lizard) (Ngarrindjeri, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) / David Unaipon
Mexpakinté : the shadow woman (Tzotzil, Mexico) / Pedro Vázquez Luna
Glade of the uncles (Monacan Indian Nation) / Jay Hansford C. Vest
Snow blindness (Mi'kmaw and Passamaquoddy) / Laika Wallace
The girls who wanted new teeth (Banyarwanda people, Rwanda)
The thunder's bride (Banyarwanda people, Rwanda)
Kwege and Bahati (Zaramo people, Tanzania)
The tale of Murile (Chaga people, Tanzania)
