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Folklore from Latin America and the Caribbean

 

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Aardema, Verna. Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico.Knopf, 1991. Curric. 398.24 A113b. MEXICO.

Ada, Alma Flor.The Lizard and the Sun: A Folktale in English and Spanish.Doubleday, 1997. Curric. 468 A191L.MEXICO

Alexander, Ellen.Llama and the Great Flood: A Folktale from Peru.Crowell, 1989. Concordia.PERU

Alvarez, Julia.The Secret Footprints.Knopf, 2000. Curric. 398.2 A4736s DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Belpr, Pura. Dance of the Animals: A Puerto Rican Folk Tale. Warne, 1972. Curric. 398.2 B452d. PUERTO RICO.

Belpr, Pura. Ot: A Puerto Rican Folk Tale. Pantheon, 1969. Curric. 398.2 B452o. PUERTO RICO.

Belpr, Pura. Perez and Martina: A Portorican Folk Tale. Warne, 1961. Curric. 398.2 B452p. PUERTO RICO.

Bierhorst, John.Doctor Coyote: A Native American Aesop’s Fables. MacMillian, 1987.Curric. 398.2 B588d. MEXICO - AZTECS

Bryan, Ashley. The Dancing Granny. Aladdin, 1987. Curric 398.2 B9148d. WEST INDIES.

Crespo, George. How the Sea Began: A Taino Myth. Clarion, 1993. Curric 398.2 C921h. WEST INDIES.

dePaola, Tomie. The Legend of Poinsettia. Putnam, 1994. Curric 398.24 D4191L. MEXICO.

DeSauza, James.Brother Anansi and the Cattle Ranch. Children’s Book, 1989. Curric. 468 D442b. SPANISH

Ehlert, Lois.Moon Rope: A Peruvian Folktale. Harcourt, 1992. Curric 398.24 E33m. PERU

Gershator, Phyllis. Tukama Tootles the Flute:A Tale From the Antilles. Orchard, 1994. Curric. 398.21 G381t. VIRGIN ISLANDS

Gerson, Mary-Joan. People of Corn: A Mayan Story. Little, 1995. Curric. 398.2 P419. CENTRAL AMERICA.

Gonzalez, Lucia M. The Bossy Gallito. Scholastic, 1994. Curric. 398.21 G643b. CUBA.

Jaffe, Nina. The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico. Simon & Schuster, 1996. Curric. 398.2 J236g. PUERTO RICO.

Johnston, Tony. The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote. Putnam’s, 1994. Concordia. MEXICO.

Kouzel, Daisy. The Cuckoo’s Reward: A Folk Tale from Mexico in Spanish and English.Doubleday, 1977. Concordia. MEXICO.

Kurtz, Jane.Miro in the Kingdom of the Sun. Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Concordia. PERU.

Lattimore, Deborah Nourse. Why There Is No Arguing in Heaven: A Mayan Myth. Harper, 1989. Curric. 398.2 L364w. CENTRAL AMERICA.

Lewis, Richard. All of You Was Singing.Atheneum, 1991. Curric. Easy L6757a. MEXICO.

Marcos, subcomandante. The Story of Colors. Cinco, 1999. Curric. 468 M321s. MEXICO

McDermott, Gerald. Musicians of the Sun. Simon & Schuster, 1997. Curric. 398.2 M135mu. MEXICO.

Ober, Hal. How Music Came to the World: An Ancient Mexican Myth. Houghton Mifflin, 1994.Curric. 398.2 O122h. MEXICO.

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw. Quetzal: A Sacred Bird of the Cloud Forest. Morrow, 1996. Curric. 398.2 P295q. CENTRAL AMERICA/MEXICO.

Pitcher, Caroline. Mariana and the Merchild. Eerdmans, 2000. Concordia. CHILE

Rohmer, Harriet. The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua. Children’s Book Press, 1987. Curric. 398.2 R738i. NICARAGUA.

Rohmer, Harriet. Mother’s Scorpion Country: A Legend from the the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua.Children’s Book Press, 1987. Curric. 398.2 R738m. NICARAGUA.

San Souci, Robert D. Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella.Simon & Schuster, 1998. Curric. 398.2 S197c. FRANCE.

San Souci, Robert D. The Faithful Friend. Simon & Schuster, 1995. Curric 398.21 S229f. CARIBBEAN.

Temple, Frances. Tiger Soup: An Anansi Story from Jamaica.Orchard, 1994. Curric. 398.24 T284t. JAMAICA.

Van Laan, Nancy. So Say the Little Monkeys.Atheneum, 1998. Curric. Easy V2589s. BRAZIL.

 

Compiled by Carol H. Sibley, Curriculum Librarian, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, Minnesota 12/2003.