Mora, Pat. 2005. Dona Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Flor wasn’t like other children in her village; she grew and grew under the care of her mother’s love until she towered into the sky. Her size, though, mattered little in the face of [...]
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Dona Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart ~ Pat Mora
Posted in Traditional Tales on February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Beautiful Blackbird ~ Ashley Bryan
Posted in Traditional Tales on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bryan, Ashley. 2003. Beautiful Blackbird. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Of all the birds in the forest, the blackbird stood out; his beautiful feathers caught and captured every color under the sun. And when the other birds, who wanted to be as lovely as he, asked to be painted black as well, he obliged [...]
On Noah’s Ark ~ Jan Brett
Posted in Traditional Tales on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Brett, Jan. 2003. On Noah’s Ark. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
Noah’s grandchild watches as animals climb aboard the ark, two by two. Over the course of forty days and nights, the child watches over them, untangling them as they sleep, until the ark reaches land and the animals disperse in their new world.
Brett’s retelling of [...]
Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book ~ Yuyi Morales
Posted in Traditional Tales on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Morales, Yuyi. 2003. Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.
Grandma Beetle isn’t quite ready to go when Senor Calavera comes for her; she promises, in one more minute, they’d go, but tricks the skeleton into staying longer to take part in her birthday celebration.
Morales puts together a clever story [...]
