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    La Llorona/The Weeping Woman: An Hispanic Legend Told in Spanish and English
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    La Llorona/The Weeping Woman: An Hispanic Legend Told in Spanish and English

    By Joe Hayes, Vicki Trego Hill and Mona Pennypacker

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    La Llorona (yoh-RROH-nah) / The Weeping Woman is the ghost story to end all ghost stories, capturing the minds of both kids and adults in the U.S. and Mexico. In Spanish and English, master storyteller JOE HAYES retells the tale of a beautiful woman whose fear and jealousy dooms her to an eternal search for all she’s lost. It appears at first to be only a frightening story filled with mysterious events that cause children to sit wide-eyed, huddling together, listening spellbound. Yet it’s the simple, universal wisdom at the core of the story that finally works its magic in their hearts.

    La Llorona es el cuento de fantasmas que supera todos los otros. Por generaciones, ha cautivado las imaginaciones de ambos niños y adultos en México y los Estados Unidos. En español e ingles, el maestro autor JOE HAYES cuenta la historia de los celos y miedo que condenó a una bella mujer a una búsqueda eternal por todo lo que perdió. Primero parece ser solo una historia espantosa, llena de eventos misteriosos, que causa que niños se sientan cerca, completamente fascinados. Pero es la sabiduría simple y universal al centro de la historia que trabaja como magia en sus corazones.

    La Llorona is available in a four-color edition in both paper and cloth. Joe’s chilling story of the crying ghost woman has sold over 600,000 copies and is truly the best known and most popular story of Hispanic America. La Llorona has more staying power than Batman and Wonder Woman combined. As proof, librarians tell us that Joe Hayes’La Llorona leaves the library more than they do, often not even bothering to come back—kids love her that much. She gives them the shivers!

    La Llorona esta disponible en una edición de cuatro colores en ambos papel y tela. La historia espeluznante que Joe cuenta sobre la mujer fantasma ha vendido más de 600,000 copias, y es verdaderamente la historia más conocida y popular de Latinoamérica. La Llorona es más . Bibliotecarios y bibliotecarias nos dicen que sus libros de La Llorona escritos por Joe Hayes salen de la librería más que ellos y ellas, hasta a veces ni regresan—¡tanto les gusta la historia a los niños!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCinco Puntos Press
    Release dateFeb 9, 2014
    ISBN9781933693286
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    La Llorona/The Weeping Woman: An Hispanic Legend Told in Spanish and English
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    Joe Hayes

    Joe Hayes’ bilingual Spanish-English tellings have earned him a celebrated place among America’s storytellers. He began sharing his stories in print in 1982. In 2005, Joe received the Talking Leaves Literary Award from the National Story telling Network, an award given to members of the story telling community who have made considerable and influential contributions to the literature of story telling. His books have received the Arizona Young Readers Award, two Land of Enchantment Children’s Book Awards, four IPPY Awards, a Southwest Book Award, a Skipping Stone Honor, an Aesop Prize, and an Aesop Accolade Award. They have been on the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List twice, and his book Ghost Fever was the first bilingual book to win the Bluebonnet Award.

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    • 3/5
      The tale of La Llorona (The Weeping Woman) is familiar cautionary tale that many of my students' parents tell to keep their children inside at night. What may not be as well-known to my fourth graders is that this story has been told for hundreds of years in the Southwest, including California. Author Joe Hayes writes a bilingual story about how, in a fit of jealousy, a young mother drowned her children. Even though she immediately regretted her decision, she was not able to bring her children back to life. Hayes explains that this is why (especially on windy nights) La Llorona can be seen dressed in white and heard crying for her missing children. Vicki Trego Hill and Mona Pennypacker's illustrations are delightfully creepy. "Is the story really true?" Hayes asks. " Who knows? Some claim that it is . Others say that it isn't. But the old ones still tell it to the children, just as they heard it themselves when they were young."
    • 4/5
      Used as a read aloud for students. It's a spooky story passed down from generations to children to keep them from going outside in the dark or by rivers. Not recommended for ages younger than 9. I would be careful with this but it could be one that students choose on their own rather than a whole class read-aloud.
    • 2/5
      La Llorona/The Weeping Woman the legend about La Llorona, when I was a little girl. I was always scared of La Llorna sort of like the boogyman. La Llorna brings fear to children that disobey their parents. The book has great illustrations not too scary for young children. The book is written in English and Spanish.