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Amazonia : indigenous tales from Brazil / retold by Daniel Munduruku ; pictures by Nikolai Popov ; translated by Jane Springer.
LIBRA GR133.B6 M86 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Munduruku, Daniel, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Brazil.
- Tales.
- Indians of South America.
- Brazil.
- Tales--Amazon River Region.
- Indians of South America--Brazil--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Folklore.
- Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Folklore--Brazil.
- Folklore--Amazon River Region.
- Amazon River Region.
- Genre:
- Children's nonfiction.
- Folklore.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 95 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Berkeley : Groundwood Books, [2013]
- Summary:
- A treasury of Brazilian folktales is presented in the authentic voice of an author who grew up in the rain forest and includes stories identified as most representative of Amazonian culture, in a volume complemented by descriptions of indigenous populations and a glossary of animal and plant profiles.
- Contents:
- The beginning of the world
- Amao
- The brothers Bacororo and Itubore
- The husband of the stars
- The people with bat wings
- The beautiful deer
- The parrot who sings kra-kra-kra
- The Pequi tree
- The enticing smell
- The death of Ari
- Iara, the mother of water
- Ceuci, the witch who ate a lot.
- Notes:
- Translation from the Portuguese.
- ISBN:
- 9781554981854
- 1554981859
- OCLC:
- 810526302
- Publisher Number:
- 99987581695
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