These stories, exceptionally well selected and retold with verve and attention to phrasing, are all useful either for reading aloud or for learning to tell--in a classroom or a library, at a child's bedside, in a visit to a retirement home, or around a campfire….An extensive bibliography and an ample index, including entries of subject, author, and title complete this work, which ought to grace the tables of all storytellers and the bookshelves of school libraries.

MultiCultural Review

This volume is intended primarily for readers rather than tellers. The stories are perfect for adults and young people in middle and high school….Keding lists questions for students to engage elders in recalling their old stories, and he provides discussion guides for older audiences to use.

School Library Journal

[A] useful and comprehensive collection of narratives concerning a significant topic in storytelling and in life.

Journal of Folklore Research Reviews