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Two Old Women: Book Review

One day, I was browsing the bookshelves of my local library looking for something interesting to read. There’s one particular shelf in an adult section of the library that I like to browse all the time, and it’s one that has books of myth, folklore, and fairytales . I eventually found a book that I had never heard of or read before; Two Old Women . Two Old Women is a book written by Velma Wallis . It is an Alaskan legend of the Gwich’in people that Wallis’s mother told her after they had finished collecting firewood (p. xi). According to Wallis, her mother had told her this story because of an earlier conversation they had while collecting firewood (p. X.) Wallis was amazed by the fact that her mother still collected her own firewood despite being in her early fifties, and despite the work being physically difficult for her (p. xii) According to Wallis, the elders amongst her people would work until they couldn’t move or until they died (p. xii). After talking about these things, her ...

The Crow and the Star


A crow flew over a park

Looking for a shiny penny.

He searched and searched all day long

But he couldn’t find any.


Disappointed and distressed, 

He started to head back to his nest.

But something glittered on the ground

Filling him with zest.


He flew down to the light

And saw it was a star.

“It’s light is beautiful,” Crow said.

“What a beautiful star you are.”


The crow took the star 

And flew it to his nest.

“I shall keep this star hidden forever.

I shall keep it from all the rest.”


He kept the star in his nest.

He kept it to himself.

The star’s light was brilliant,

But he showed no one else.


As the days went on,

Crow’s happiness waned.

“The star is bright, 

But its brightness is in vain.


“The light is meant to shine

For more people than one.

I must show it not only to someone,

But to everyone.”


The crow picked up the star,

When it was dark at night.

He spread his wings 

And took off in flight.


He flew higher and higher

As high as he could be.

He placed the star in the sky

“Shine for all to see.”


The star shone bright

Brighter than ever before

Crow was very happy.

“The whole world will see it more.”

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