Illustrations and text describe how the Mixtecs create painted manuscripts, or codices, that reflect their way of life and document their history, science, land tenure, tribute, and sacred rituals. A young Aztec girl tells her little brother how their parents create beautifully painted manuscripts, or codices. She explains to him how paper is made from local plants and how the long paper is folded into a book. Her parents and others paint the codices...

Retells animal folktales from five indigenous peoples of Mexico, including the Tarahumara tale in which a puma meets a grasshopper, and provides information on the culture of each indigenous people.

Retells a traditional Huichol folktale in which the young Tunuri learns his place in the natural world when he meets the magical Blue Deer, and follows him on an enlightening journey.

Award-winning author Duncan Tonatiuh reimagines one of Mexico₂s cherished legends, Princess Izta and her warrior love, Popoca.

When Sabrina's grandmother visits from Mexico, she brings gifts that make Sabrina feel like a Mayan princess.

Retells a Mexican legend in which the sky god and the wind god bring music from Sun's house to the Earth.

For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the friars and used the new alphabet to record historical performances by elders. Between them, they wrote hundreds of pages, which circulated widely within...