Brujas, lechuzas y espantos = Witches, owls and spooks

Brujas, lechuzas y espantos = Witches, owls and spooks

  • Author: Perales, Alonso M.
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558855120
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781558856318
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2008
  • Pages: 96

In this bilingual collection of five stories, Don Cecilio tells the neighborhood children stories that make their hair stand on end. “In my barrio they told the story …” and so his cuento would begin. In “The Owl and the Bundle,” young Tomás disappears without a trace. Distraught, his parents and siblings look for him everywhere with no luck. Upon returning home, his father sees something curious, an owl flying above the house carrying a bundle with its talons. “Is it possible,” he wonders, “that the bundle is Little Tomás?” Could the owl have taken their precious son?
Based on oral tradition, these stories featuring witches, owls, and other spooky creatures have been told in Spanish-speaking barrios for generations. Now, this new edition with a first-ever English translation provided by John Pluecker will entertain and terrify a new generation of English- and Spanish-speaking children with the supernatural tales of the Hispanic community.
Originally published in Spanish in 1972 as La Lechuza: Cuentos de mi barrio (The Naylor Company), Brujas, lechuzas y espantos / Witches, Owls and Spooks will fascinate children interested in scary stories and at the same time will provide a window into a different time and place, when people lived a more rural life and winged shadows flitted across the darkened countryside.

  • Castellano
    • Cover
    • Title page
    • Copyright page
    • Índice
    • Prólogo
    • Brujas, lechuzas y espantos
      • Introducción
      • Don Cecilio
      • El bulto
      • Violeta
      • ¿Qué resolló?
      • Doña Victoria
      • La curandera del barrio
  • English
    • Title page
    • Copyright page
    • Contents
    • Prologue
    • Witches, owls and spooks
      • Introduction
      • Don Cecilio
      • The bundle
      • Violeta
      • There's a ghost here?
      • Doña Visctoria
      • The barrio's Curandera

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