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Book of Nature Myths (Version 2)

These delightful stories about how natural things began are drawn from the early folk-lore of many races. The wonderful explanations of the phenomena of nature given by the native races appeal to the child's wonder about the same phenomena, and he and we are pleased with the imagination involved. These stories gratify our inner child's desire for a fantastic explanation of things we see every day. - Summary by Phil Chenevert

Year of Publication: 1902Genres: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Running Time: 03 hours 33 minutes 07 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	The Story of the First Humming-bird. Julian Pratley	7:14
2	The Story of the First Butterflies Shriya	2:44
3	The Story of the First Woodpecker Shriya	2:36
4	Why the Woodpecker's Head is Red Shriya	3:50
5	Why the Cat always falls upon her Feet Shriya	2:58
6	Why the Swallow's Tail is Forked Shriya	3:59
7	Why the White Hares have Black Ears Noori	2:51
8	Why the Magpie's Nest is not well built Noori	2:45
9	Why the Raven's Feathers are Black Leannie Rach	3:25
10	How Fire was brought to the Indians. Owlivia	6:09
11	How the Quail became a Snipe Shriya	3:52
12	Why the Serpent sheds his Skin Lily	3:11
13	Why the Dove is Timid Matea Bracic	2:54
14	Why the Parrot repeats the Words of Men Matea Bracic	3:47
15	The Story of the First Mocking-bird Matea Bracic	3:50
16	Why the Tail of the Fox has a White Tip Matea Bracic	4:38
17	The Story of the First Frogs Shriya	3:11
18	Why the Rabbit is Timid Shriya	2:12
19	Why the Peetweet cries for Rain Shriya	2:11
20	Why the Bear has a Short Tail Lily Ellis	3:00
21	Why the Wren flies Close to the Earth Gini Pug	3:07
22	Why the Hoofs of the Deer are Split Ritu Aarcee	3:26
23	The Story of the First Grasshopper Chloe West	4:09
24	The Story of the Oriole Alan Mapstone	3:45
25	Why the Peacock's Tail has a Hundred Eyes Kathleen Moore	4:09
26	The Story of the Bees and the Flies Kathleen Moore	3:00
27	The Story of the First Moles Leannie Rach	3:05
28	The Story of the First Ants Leannie Rach	5:20
29	The Face of the Manito Evan Mantler	4:28
30	The Story of the First Diamonds Jenn Broda	3:58
31	The Story of the First Pearls Alan Mapstone	4:16
32	The Story of the First Emeralds Daniel Johnson-Carter	3:37
33	Why the Evergreen Trees never lose their Leaves Ritu Aarcee	4:44
34	Why the Aspen Leaves tremble Gini Pug	2:53
35	How the Blossoms came to the Heather Ritu Aarcee	3:48
36	How Flax was given to Men leenaaaa	3:57
37	Why the Juniper has Berries leenaaaa	2:26
38	Why the Sea is Salt Alan Mapstone	4:01
39	The Story of the First Whitefish Ritu Aarcee	2:50
40	Was it the First Turtle? Shy	3:48
41	Why the Crocodile has a Wide Mouth Ritu Aarcee	4:32
42	The Story of the Picture on the Vase mleigh	4:44
43	Why the Water in Rivers is never Still Daniel Johnson-Carter	5:13
44	How the Raven helped Men Jenn Broda	4:52
45	The Story of the Earth and Sky Annie Cheng	4:35
46	How Summer came to the Earth. Ritu Aarcee	6:38
47	The Story of the First Snowdrops mleigh	4:30
48	Why the Face of the Moon is White Ritu Aarcee	4:19
49	Why all Men love the Moon Ritu Aarcee	4:06
50	Why there is a Hare in the Moon rakpinay	4:43
51	The Children in the Moon rakpinay	5:10
52	Why there is a Man in the Moon rakpinay	3:46
53	The Twin Stars Annie Cheng	4:25
54	The Lantern and the Fan Lily Ellis	5:30