Lore of the Great Turtle

This is a very nice book, and a wonderful resource. The tales are all very lively, and are quite interesting to read. I enjoyed reading these legends to my children, and they enjoyed hearing them. We highly recommend this book to you!


Inspires the imagination with myths and legends.   October 30, 1999
 4 out of 5 found this review helpful

This was one of my very favorite books as a child, and I'm glad to see that it's still available. Gringhuis collects Ojibwa legends from Mackinac Island and the upper Great Lakes generally for a children's book that helps children to see the world in a new way. It's not boring at all, especially because several of the stories involve transformations of characters into rock formations that one can still see on the island. Especially if you're going to Mackinac Island, it's a great book to read. The legend of Sugarloaf is alone reason to buy this book. In some ways, it's old-fashioned athropology, and some might see it as a relic of appropriationist philosophy, that is, stealing stories from people who held them as sacred. But Gringhuis, as in his other Mackinac books, is sensitive and compelling. He really creates a love of history with this book.