Children's Buffalo Books

Buffalo Woman, by Paul Goble
MacMillan Publishing Co., New York, NY
Buffalo Woman comes from stories of the Great Plains tribes who followed the buffalo and depended on it as a source of life. When the people shun the Buffalo Woman, she returns with her son, Calf Boy. If her husband cannot find Buffalo woman and their son among the buffalo, they will be lost to him forever. ($8.25)

The Great Buffalo Race
retold by Barbara Juster Ebenson, illustrated by Helen K. Davie
Little, Brown and Co., New York, NY
This beautifully illustrated book is a retelling of a Seneca buffalo legend. The Great Buffalo Race tells how the buffalo got its hump. ($18.85)

The Great Race of the Birds and Animals
by Paul Goble
MacMillan Publishing Co., New York, NY
In this Sioux and Cheyenne legend the reader discovers why man eats buffalo rather than being eaten by the buffalo. The Great Race of the Birds and Animals also lets the reader in on the secret of why the buffalo has a hairy chin. ($8.25)

There Still Are Buffalo
by Ann Nolan Clark, illustrated by Steve Tongier
Ancient City Press, Santa Fe, NM
There Still Are Buffalo tells the story of a buffalo calf that grows up to be Chief of the Thundering Herd. The herd roams Dakota Indian territory. This book should be read aloud. ($12.49)

Where the Buffaloes Begin
by Olaf Baker, illustrated by Stepen Gammell Nawa
Puffin Books, New York, NY
The wise man in Where the Buffaloes Begin tells the ancient legend of the beginning of the buffalo. He declared that they began beneath the water and were born deep in the lake. ($9.35)