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Author:

Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 1952-

Title:

Animal jamboree : Latino folktales / Judith Ortiz Cofer ; Spanish translation by Natalia Rosales-Yeomans. La fiesta de los animales : leyendas latinas / Judith Ortiz Cofer ; traducci©đn al espa©łol de Natalia Rosales-Yeomans.

Publisher:

Pi©łata Books,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

34, 34, p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Upside-down books--Specimens.
Animals--Folklore.
Folklore--Puerto Rico.
Spanish language materials--Bilingual.
Upside-down books.
Folklore--Puerto Rico.
Bilingual books--English-Spanish.
Folklore.
Folklore--Mexico.

Other Authors:

Rosales-Yeomans, Natalia.

Other Titles:

Short stories. Spanish & English. Selections

Notes:

Translated from the English. Titles from separate title pages; works issued back-to-back and inverted.

Contents:

The animals' grand fiesta = La gran fiesta de los animales -- The brave little ant and el se©łor Chivo = La valiente hormiguita y el se©łor Chivo -- A funeral for Nangato = Un funeral para Nangato -- The parrot who loved chorizos : a Puerto Rican tale = El loro que amaba el chorizo : un cuento puertorrique©ło.

Summary:

A collection of Puerto Rican folktales about animals, including the title selection in which a lion and lioness plan to push a goat into a cauldron of boiling water, but the goat's friends help him escape.

Indexed by:

Kirkus Review, March 2012
Kirkus Review

ISBN:

1558857435
9781558857438 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2012008730

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)