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Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico

10 best books like Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico (Verna Aardema): Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest, The Mud Pony, Sootface, Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile, The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza, Mouse & Lion, The Girl Who Spun Gold, Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, Meanwhile Back at the Ranch, The Cats In Krasinski Square

Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest
AuthorGerald McDermott
ISBN0152019588
Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest is appropriate for children in kindergarten through second grade.

Coyote, the trickster-fool, is common in Native American folklore. He is always getting in trouble, usually because he is rude, boastful and proud. In this tale, he wants...
The Mud Pony
AuthorCaron Lee Cohen
ISBN0590415263
A poor young Pawnee boy, longing to have a horse of his own, shapes one out of the mud he finds along the creek, and is surprised to discover - one terrible day when he is left behind by his tribe - that it has come to life! Now, guided by his 'mud pony,' who speaks to him in his dreams, and is a gift from Mother Earth,...
Sootface
AuthorRobert D. San Souci
Once, an Ojibwa man whose wife had died raised three daughters alone. The two older girls were lazy and bad-tempered, and made their youngest sister do all the work. When the flames from the cooking fire singed her hair or burned her skin, they laughed and called her Sootface.



While...
Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile
AuthorWon-Ldy Paye
ISBN0805070478
Mrs. Chicken has to think fast to outwit hungry Crocodile, who wants to eat her for dinner.

One morning Mrs. Chicken took her bath in a puddle.
“Cluck, cluck,” she said proudly. “What a pretty chicken I am!”

Mrs. Chicken can’t see her wings in the puddle, so she walks down...
The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza
AuthorPhilemon Sturges
ISBN0142301892
The story of the industrious Little Red Hen is not a new one, but when this particular hen spies a can of tomato sauce in her cupboard and decides to make a pizza, the familiar tale takes on a fresh new twist. Kids will love following along as the hen, with no help from her friends the duck, the dog, and the cat,...
Mouse & Lion
AuthorRand Burkert
ISBN0545101476
From the illustrator of the classic edition of Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs

On a ridge above the Kalihari,
Lion naps, until Mouse bumbles into him,
willy-nilly, startling him awake.
After a show of teeth, Lion is softened
by Mouse's pledge of loyalty
and sets him free....
The Girl Who Spun Gold
AuthorVirginia Hamilton
ISBN0590473786
Please note that this review of Virginia Hamilton's exquisite The Girl Who Spun Gold is going to be a bit different in set-up and scope, in so far that I am mostly posting general musings about both The Girl Who Spun Gold and also concerning Rumpestilzchen types of folk and fairy tales in global lore and...
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
AuthorCarmen Agra Deedy
ISBN1561453994
Martina the beautiful cockroach doesn't know coffee beans about love and marriage.
That's where her Cuban family comes in. While some of the Cucarachas offer her gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her something really useful: un consejo increible, some shocking...
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
AuthorTrinka Hakes Noble
ISBN0140545646
When Rancher Hicks drives 84 miles to Sleepy Gulch for excitement, his wife Elna misses the 12-year-old wanted posters in the post office, a never-ending checker game, and hot-spot Millie's Luncheonette. Meanwhile back at the ranch, all that happens is Elna strikes oil, inherits a fortune, and is...
The Cats In Krasinski Square
AuthorKaren Hesse
ISBN0439435404
Newbery medalist Karen Hesse tells a harrowing, true story about life in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
When Karen Hesse came upon a short article about cats out-foxing the Gestapo at the train station in Warsaw during WWII, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. The result is this stirring account...
Diego: Bigger Than Life
AuthorCarmen T. Bernier-Grand
ISBN0761453830
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand's inspiring free verse and David Diaz's vivid paintings capture the defining moments and emotions of Diego Rivera's tumultuous life, including his stormy relationship with artist Frida Kahlo and his passion for his art. Rivera's energy, physique, love for women, and work...
Just a Minute!
AuthorYuyi Morales
ISBN0811837580
In this original trickster tale, Senor Calavera arrives unexpectedly at Grandma Beetle's door. He requests that she leave with him right away. "Just a minute," Grandma Beetle tells him. She still has one house to sweep, two pots of tea to boil, three pounds of corn to make into tortillas -- and that's...
Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare
AuthorHans de Beer
ISBN0735810117
All is quiet at the North Pole when Lars, the Little Polar Bear, hears a faint whimper. He finds and rescues Hugo, a scared little hare, who has fallen into a hole in the ice. The two share an adventurous day -- running races, getting lost in a snowstorm, visiting a polar research station. Lars teases Hugo...
Snowbear Whittington: An Appalachian Beauty and the Beast
AuthorWilliam H. Hooks
ISBN0027443558
This simply wonderful Appalachian adaptation of the globally popular and celebrated Beauty and the Beast folktale type actually also contains many many elements of the Norwegian East of the Sun and West of the Moon, and it reminds me at least somewhat of the Russian folktale of Finist the Falcon Prince...
Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English: Bilingual Spanish-English
AuthorAlma Flor Ada
ISBN0688170676
In simple words and sun-drenched paintings, Alma Flor Ada and Simón Silva take us into the fields and orchards, and into the lives of the people who work them. Simple poems in Spanish and English, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet, describe the wonder of the vegetable and fruit farms. Together,...
Bossy Gallito / El gallo de bodas
AuthorLucia M. Gonzalez
The Bossy Gallito is the story of a Rooster who is going to his friend (parrot) is wedding. Gallito was elequently dressed and on his way to the wedding when he sees a kernel of corn on the side of the road. Deciding whether to get his beak dirty by eating the corn wasn't much of a barrier. Gallito ate the corn...
Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock
AuthorEric A. Kimmel
ISBN0823407985
A classic trickster folktale told with humor and charm, this is a perfect read along book both parents and children will love.

When Anansi the Spider finds a strange moss-covered rock in the forest, he uses it to trick all his animal friends. But Little Bush Deer is onto Anansi's scheme, and hatches...
Manana, Iguana
AuthorAnn Whitford Paul
ISBN0823419800
I needed a fairy tale retelling, and I decided that, instead of going for YA/Children's, I would pick a picture book. I came across this one and just had to read it. It wasn't as good as I had hoped, especially since those three were just the worst. The poor Iguana had to do everything as these three lame characters...
Chato's Kitchen
AuthorGary Soto
ISBN0698116003
Chato can't believe his luck. Not only is he the coolest low-riding cat in East L.A., but his brand-new neighbors are the plumpest, juciest, tastiest-looking family of mice to move into the barrio in a long time. So Chato and his best friend, Novio Boy, get out the pots and pans, the tortillas and the beans--everything...
Galimoto
AuthorKaren Lynn Williams
ISBN0688109918
“A joy to read aloud.” —New York Times Book Review

Kondi is determined to make a galimoto—a toy vehicle made of wires. His brother laughs at the idea, but all day Kondi goes about gathering up the wire he needs. By nightfall, his wonderful galimoto is ready for the village children to...
How Chipmunk Got His Stripes
AuthorJoseph Bruchac
ISBN0142500216
Bear brags that he can do anything-even stop the sun from rising. Brown Squirrel doesn't believe him, so the two wait all night to see if the sun will rise. Sure enough, the sky reddens and the sun appears. Brown Squirrel is so happy to be right that he teases Bear. What happens when a little brown squirrel...
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