The Ten Tales presented here have been chosen for their beautiful spiritual allegories regarding both life here on earth and the hereafter. Coyote is the anti-hero similar to Aesop’s animal characters.  His world is the animal world. Unlike the Mediterranean and Middle East anti-hero   Nasredin Hoga, who is a human that starts off as a boy simpleton and grows into a wise old man.

My first tale establishes the Coyote as a fumbling character. He aspires to great things and he manages to beget a new identity but his inflated ego stops him from ‘seeing’.

In Tale two he still hasn’t learnt his lesson! In spite of the fact that he is in good company—his friend—the buffalo.

In Tale three, Coyote and his family are starving. He is shown plenitude and the abundant Earth in the persona of Turkey. More than this, there is a higher Being—the Bear. Who is representing Providence itself.

With Eagle, he soars into the spirit world which makes him feel omnipotent only to learn how earth bound his nature is! He even takes an interest in death matters but gets the blame for it for we all have to die. It is only at the very end that we see him grown into a wise old man, yet advocating playing a trick to help two foolish girls from falling into the hands of Ugly Wolverine Man.    

Finally, the tales help youngsters to understand a vastly different culture while enriching the soul with ideas of the spiritual.

About the Author

Doris Vella Camilleri lived in New York in the late sixties, Toronto, Canada for some years and lately in London, England. She now resides in Malta her country of origin. She was married to the well-known conductor musician and lecturer Professor Charles Camilleri. They have a son and a daughter.

Doris is a fully qualified teacher who has gained a vast experience in teaching a multicultural section of children in two different countries. She is bi-lingual with Maltese—hence most of her works are written in both languages.

She is the author of The Good, the Bad and the Miraculous in folktale (the Moral in the Tale)—a researched work of interpretation of world tales. Published by the Edward de Bono (The Lateral Thinking author) Foundation who also wrote her a Foreword to the work. Her War Memoir is a personal telling of her experience in World War Two as seen through the eyes of an eight year old. It is a best–seller.

Her Trickster Tales from Around the Mediterranean Shores is a researched work about the Trickster character of her childhood and more. It has just been re-printed for schools. Hello Mr. Grammar is a book of chants (English and American) to teach all items of Grammar to nine year olds. Lucid English is TV course teaching young and old alike the concept of the verb tenses.