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The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who outsmarts stronger animals, is a symbol of triumph by the weak over the powerful. The fables of the foolish Juan Bobo, who tries to bring milk home in a burlap bag, illustrate facets of traditional Puerto Rican life. Conflict over status, identity and power is a recurring theme--in a story from Trinidad, a young bull, raised by his mother in secret, challenges his tyrannical father who has killed all the other males in the herd. One in a series of folklore reference guides by the author, this volume shares summaries of 438 tales--some in danger of disappearing--retold in English and Creole from West African, European, and slave indigenous cultures in 24 countries and territories. Tales are grouped in themed sections with a detailed subject index and extensive links to online sources.
Es un cuento de brujas que narra las peripecias que pasan los habitantes de unos pueblos sobre un región de Europa, que ha sido maldecido por una bruja que fue ejecutada dentro de la iglesia y antes de morir los maldijo, diciéndoles que cuando la campana suene ella regresara, para llevarse a sus niños. El miedo forma parte principal de la historia junto al coraje de los habitantes y la inocente curiosidad de los niños, en una noche de espanto y terrorífica. La historia también relata los problemas que tendrá una joven bruja {Esmeralda} que toma la difícil decisión de ayudar a una niña {Alicia} que ha sido envenenada por una malvada bruja {Murren} que busca un medallón y un libro mágico. La odisea de un hombre {Marco} en busca recuperar a sus hijos y que irá al mundo de donde ellas vinieron. Una aventura donde dos grupos de brujas {Guardianas} unen sus fuerzas para detener a las malvadas brujas {Dragolas} que intenta desestabilizar su mundo.
A retelling in English and Spanish of fifteen traditional tales from a variety of Latin American countries.
Dale is a former professor in the College of Education at Southern Illinois U. at Carbondale. In this Bibliography, she lists and annotates 254 titles of bilingual children's books containing both Spanish and English in the same volume, published during the past six decades. The text includes an introduction, table of contents, and subject indexing in both English and Spanish. Entries in the bibliography itself are arranged in alphabetical order by the author's last name and then by book title, and include brief summaries of the text (in English only), information on awards the book has won, and a list of reviews from Children's Book Review Index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
For use in schools and libraries only. A retelling in English and Spanish of fifteen traditional tales from a variety of Latin American countries.
In this collection, seven bilingual stories showcase the richness of Latin American folklore, fantasy, and fiction. Latin American literature is rooted in the history and culture of the world from which it arises, and this book explores many facets of those roots within everyday occurrences, historical events, and traditional folk stories, sometimes using imaginary characters in real situations and other times, real characters in fanciful situations. Transporting readers to such places as the Amazon jungle and nineteenth-century Bogotá or through epic events of the Latin American War of Independence, the author has compiled, researched, and invented stories by turns whimsical and deeply moving, and has cast them, with a dose of his own imagination, in an agile, poetic language that keeps readers enthralled from start to finish. Whatever the subject matter - be it a fictitious chihuahua (a breed native to Latin America), a fresh batch of tamales, an Amazon legend, a piñata maker, a hero of Latin American independence, a generations-old priest's tale, or a magnificent journey through Andean topography - the author leads us in among the intertwining roots of Latin American life and shows us its reality through a different prism, one in which the everyday is fantastical and fantasy seems commonplace.