Stunning Aboriginal artwork combines with the provocative storytelling of Tamarack Song to renew, in all their traditional splendor, these 25 exceptional native legends.

Entertaining yet profound, laced with tenderness and grief, passion and irony - it's all here. Along with that, you will find yourself back in the time when your wizened elders told stories around a glowing hearth. Magically, the monsters, heroes, and shapeshifters would come alive and open doorways to the mysteries of life.

Like a nest, each legend is mindfully woven to hold a precious life within. You will find an able guide for your journey, who is also a teacher and a healer. With themes common to every era of the human experience, these legends continue to be as relevant today as when our native ancestors first crafted them.

Told in a manner that makes them easily accessible to all ages, these stories speak to each person at their own level of comprehension and need.

As well as a book of legends, this is a guide to the art of storytelling, and inspiration for reawakening the storyteller within each of us, and a call for the revival of storytelling. For those of you who want to experience these legends as presented by a wizened storyteller, this book, read by Tamarack Song, will be available on CD-ROM. There will also be an educational companion guide, A Teacher-Storyteller's Guide to Whispers of the Ancients.

Now you are invited to join the storytelling circle - open the cover and let the rhythm of the Drum awaken you to the Whispers of the Ancients.

All proceeds from the sale of this book go to support the revival of traditional storytelling and the renewal of the indigenous cultures who are keeping these stories alive.