The Review --

Throughout history fables and tales have been told by humans about the animals. A sub-genre of these tales gives humorous reasons why certain animals gained their characteristics, such as a giraffe long ago getting his head stuck in a tree and his neck stretched out and thus all giraffes have been born with long necks ever since.

This book takes a different tack. It looks at human development through the eyes of animals. Which isn't that far from the truth. Humans have studied how birds flew to define the dynamics of flight. Bees were studied to develop air conditioning. And the list goes on.

The "Two-Legs" that are studied by the animals seem to be Native Americans as the wigwam and other developments were those developed by the Native Americans.

A different animal relates each tale of human development. An example is the turtle telling about how Two-Legs developed the wigwam (basically a house carried on the back). Possum relates how Two-Legs created the board to carry the babies like possums carry their young on their back. A woodpecker tells us how Two-Legs came to carve out the first canoe.

Children will enjoy these delightful tales.