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"Atmospheric woodcuts illustrate this Newbery Award-winning collection of 19 South American folktales. Charles J. Finger heard the tales firsthand from native storytellers, whose fables of talking animals, witches, giants, and ordinary people in supernatural settings provide remarkable insights into regional values and culture. The first of the stories, "A Tale of Three Tails," tells of an age when the rat had a tail like a horse, the rabbit had a...
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"David Bowles stitches together the fragmented mythology of pre-Colombian Mexico into an exciting, unified narrative in the tradition of William Buck's Ramayana, Robert Fagles's Iliad, and Neil Gaiman's Norse Myths"--
Las leyendas mitológicas reunidas en Serpiente emplumada, corazón del cielo trazan la historia del mundo desde sus inicios en los sueños del dios dual, Ometeotl, hasta la llegada de los conquistadores españoles a México y la caída...
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Provides an overview of the history of South and Meso-American peoples and covers the myths of the Inca, Maya, and Aztec empires, as well as the stories of other, lesser-known cultures, such as the Olmec. Entries describe and explain the significance of each subject and, for characters, tell the stories surrounding them.
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