Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences — Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin does hear the animals' voices, and as she shows us in this luminous collection of one novalla, ten stories and eighteen poems, they are magical, fascinating, and terrifying. In the title novella, a child survives a plane crash and enters the Dream Time of primitive myths, where the coyote knows secrets about that world -- and this one. In other stories we journey further into unknown realms, like the deep space planet where only fear dwells, or the unfamiliar worlds of wolves, rats, and horses whose realities make us question our own.