Friday, August 18, 2017

Folktales from Around the World: South America

For our Co-op last semester, we were learning about the seven continents and the students are giving presentations of their own choosing. My son decided to focus on folktales from each continent and explore story telling. For South America he chose Jabuti: A Trickster Tale of The Amazon by Gerald McDermott.

One of the problems I had searching for South American folktales is that my searches popped up results from north american-mexican heritage. A lot of tales from South America have versions that have evolved in Mexico and the USA.

Cendrillon: A Carribean Cinderella. The Carribean borders the North and South American continent. It's considered part of North America, but I like to include this one here as a bridge between the continents.

SOUTH AMERICA
Jabuti: A Trickster Tale of The Amazon by Gerald McDermott
Papagayo: The Mischief Maker by Gerald McDermott
Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains by Barbara Knutson

Moon Rope : a Peruvian folktale (Un lazo a la luna : una leyenda peruana) by Lois Ehlert ; translated into Spanish by Amy Prince. While the illustrations are not my favorite because they are a bit abstract, I love that the book has the Spanish translation on the same page as the English. A story about a fox who climbs a rope to the moon. This was my five-year-old's favorite story.

Uncle Nacho's hat: a folktale from Nicaragua = El sombrero de Tio Nacho : un cuento de Nicaragua by Harriet Rohmer (Adapter), Mira Reisberg (Illustrator). Uncle Nacho cannot seem to get rid of his old hat. It keeps coming back to him until he learns to think about his new hat instead. An author's note explains that the hat represents Uncle Nacho's old habits.



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