Short Story Collections
First Blood , Schaefer's follow-up to Shane , tells the tale of Jess Harker, a young stagecoach driver finding his way in this coming-of-age story.
Seven stories deal with the price of progress, a deer hunter, a grizzly bear attack, a general store, a boy's memories of his great grandfather, and the life of a Cheyenne Indian
As a child, Philip Sherlock loved to listen to folk tales. Since then he has made a significant contribution to Caribbean folklore by recording many of them in print for the first time. Here are fables of the birds and animals of the West jaguar, snake, crested curassow, wild pig, parrot, wise owl, and of Anansi—the spider who can assume human form. These twenty-one stories are a wonderful mixture of early tales from the Arawak and the Carib people, the original inhabitants of the Caribbean, and from the Ashanti people of West Africa. Read together they help to provide a background to the history of the West Indies. The stories are retold here in a warm, rich style—some tales gentle and philosophical, some humorous and full of action.
Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund. Ten Western short stories from the author of Shane.
