Product Description: In the far north of Canada, daylight disappears for much of the year. This Inuit legend describes how the First People of Canada explained the sun's return to their remote lands.

Product Description: Long, long ago, when the earth was new, the great river goddess Yemoya sent her daughter Aje to marry a handsome earth chief in the Land of Shining Day. At first Aje was happy, but soon she started to pine for the cool shadows of her mother's realm...read more

Beginning at 6 p.m. and ending at 6 a.m., this poetic odyssey through the nocturnal world explores the hours of darkness in chapters that deal with such themes as sunsets, nocturnal animals, bedtime stories, fireworks, nightclubs, astronomy, sleep and dreams, and endless nights, among others. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

When the daughter of the river goddess Yemoya goes to the Land of Shining Day to marry a handsome earth chief, her longing for the cool darkness of her former home causes Night to be brought to the world

A beautifully illustrated retelling of a Brazilian tale linking Brazil's African heritage with a history of slavery recounts how an African goddess brings the gift of night to the hardworking people of Brazil.

Product Description: Relates the traditional Brazilian legend of how the Sea Serpent's gift of darkness to his daughter brings night to the people of the rain forest.

Discusses the different supernatural creatures that seem to come out mostly at night