La Llorona, the Weeping Woman

出版者:Consortium Book Sales & Dist

作者:Hayes, Joe/ Trego Hill, Vicki (ILT)/ Pennypacker, Mona (ILT)/ Hill, Vicki Trego (ILT)

页数:32

出版时间:2004-9

价格:$ 19.15

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9780938317869

"La Llorona" (yoh-RROH-nah), the ghost story to end all ghost stories, is now available for the first time in a four-color, hardback edition. It is truly the best known and most popular "cuento" of Hispanic America. It appears at first to be only a frightening story filled with mysterious events that cause children to sit wide-eyed, to huddle together and listen spellbound. Yet, it's the simple, universal wisdom at the core of the story that finally works its magic in their hearts. In the original paperback duotone version, this story of the weeping woman, sold close to 100,000 copies.Joe Hayes is best known for his bilingual tellings of stories from the American Southwest. "La Llorona" is one of his favorite stories.