by Charles J. Finger
A very pleasant book of retellings of folktales from all over South America, first published in 1925. The elevated style hasn't aged much. However, comparison with other versions shows that Finger sometimes changed the stories a lot according to his idea of what was suitable for children, or other r...
This was my July Newbery Reading and I FINALLY finished it in September. That in itself says a lot about how I feel about this book, but honestly I'm struggling a little to rate this. On one hand I feel like two stars is really unfairly low because some of the stories in this collection were genui...
This is an old Newbery, a book I approached with great trepidation. I soon found my trepidation unjustified, for this is a timeless book of old stories from Central and South America, none of which I’d ever read or heard before. All the themes of folk tales are here: the value of courage, the triump...
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