African Myths & Legends: Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters (Flame Tree Collector's Editions) Hardcover – February 21, 2023

This is a very attractive little book with a wide assortment of myths and legends from different regions of Africa, each identified beneath the story's title. The stories are broken up into three thematic sections covering creation myths, death, and the afterlife; animal stories and fables; and "wit and wisdom." There's also a glossary in the back.The book is a digest-sized hardcover without a dust jacket that has foil on the cover and page edges, and is bound with a ribbon bookmarker. There's a matching companion volume called African Folk and Fairy Tales and together they're part of a series highlighting stories from different cultures around the world called Flame Tree Collector's Editions. I'll definitely be adding more titles from this series to my library soon.One thing to note: Most of the content in this book appears to have been repurposed from a larger volume called African Myths and Tales from the same publisher. They've swapped in a new introduction and omitted some selections. I prefer the new collection's brightly colored, smaller, more manageable package to the gothic-looking tome they previously published, but if you already own the larger book it may not be worth a double dip.

Always great to see an attractively covered book of mythology/folklore from any non-western culture. But they shrunk the entire book down to a mass market paperback-sized book and the font must be like a 6 or 8 point size, and super hard to read. Not sure why this seems like a good idea to a publisher, because it is torture for readers.