These original stories, written in Anishinaabemowin by a storytelling team of skillful first-language speakers and scholars, delight readers and language learners with the antics of animals who playfully deal with challenges and triumphs experienced by children in all cultures: learning to work with others, listening to elders, venturing out alone, playing and working hard, and dodging dangers in the big world that surrounds their smaller lives. Interwoven in the stories are threads of Ojibwe culture and tradition. Bi-minawaanagozidaa! --back cover.