Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Copyright Date: 2008

Edition Date: 2008 Release Date: 04/01/08

Pages: 35, 35 pages

ISBN: 1-558-85512-2

ISBN 13: 978-1-558-85512-0

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2007047398

Dimensions: 22 cm.

Subject Heading:
Owls. Fiction.
Supernatural. Fiction.
Mexican Americans. Fiction.
Spanish language materials. Bilingual.
Sobrenatural. Novela. slem.
Estadounidenses de origen mexicano. Novela. slem.
Buhos. Novela. slem.
Materiales lectura en idioma espanol. Bilingue. slem.

Language: Spanish

Bilingual: Yes

Reading Level: 3.0

Interest Level: 2-5

Lexile: 810L

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 Tomas 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 Tomas? 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 Lechza: 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 provide a window into a different time and place, when people lived a more rural life and winged shadows flitted across a darkened countryside.u

Don Cecilio
El bulto = The bundle
Violeta
Que resollo? = There's a ghost here?
Dona Victoria
La curandera del barrio = The bario's curandera.