How the Loon Lost Her Voice

by Anne Cameron

The famous northwest coast Indian myth, sometimes called Raven Steals the Light telling how Loon, Raven, and all the animals rallied to retrieve the daylight from behind its wall of ice after it was stolen by evil spirits. Amusingly retold for ages six to adult by the well-known Canadian poet and novelist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0920080553
• ISBN13: 9780920080559
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.9" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

Counterbalance to Pandora's box

It is my view that folktales - tales of such quality that people kept the story alive for centuries - are excellent literature for people of any age. Anne Cameron aims her retellings of Northwest Native tales at a young audience but all of us can enjoy all of them.In this tale, Spider Woman saves the earth from the birds of torment - Spider Woman uses a spider web and a tall tree to hold the earth in place - and to put most birds of torment into their proper place on the other side of the sky blanket.An aside - one bird of tormet not expelled is tooth-ache, the subject of the oldest known written tale (from Mesopatamea).