Dance, Nana, Dance / Baila, Nana, baila

Cuban Folktales in Spanish and English
By Joe Hayes, Mauricio Trenard Sayago
Paperback: $16.95

Talking yams, a wily sorceress, a famous rascal, and more–find them all in this bilingual collection of Cuban folktales featuring ingenious and magical protagonists.

Ñames que hablan, una hechicera astuta, un granuja famoso y más: encuéntrelos a todos en esta colección bilingüe de cuentos populares Cubanos con protagonistas ingeniosos y mágicos.

Description

In this award-winning anthology, folklorist Joe Hayes shares stories he learned after years of visiting Cuba and listening to local storytellers. Out of these visits came this collection of thirteen delightful folktales that will charm you with their humor, magic, and wisdom.

The book also includes an introduction and afterword to storytellers in which Hayes provides some background of the tales included: the cultures they originated from, cultural meanings of important elements in the stories, and previous collections that included the stories, along with other relevant storytelling and anthropological information.

En esta antología premiada, el folclorista Joe Hayes comparte historias que aprendió después de años de visitar Cuba y escuchar a los narradores locales. De esas visitas surgió esta colección de trece encantadores cuentos populares que te cautivarán con su humor, magia y sabiduría.

El libro también incluye una introducción y un postfacio para los narradores, en las que Hayes repasa algunos antecedentes de los cuentos incluidos: las culturas de las que se originaron, los significados culturales de los elementos importantes de las historias y las colecciones anteriores que incluyeron las historias, junto con más información narrativa y antropológica sobre los cuentos.

About the Creators

Joe Hayes

Joe Hayes is one of America's premier storytellers. He grew up in a small town in southern Arizona where he started learning Spanish from his classmates. As Hayes got older, he began reading the work of folklorists and anthropologists and gathering the old stories from the Southwest region. His books have received the Arizona Young Readers Award, two Land of Enchantment Children's Book Awards, the Texas Bluebonnet award, and the National Storytelling Network Talking Leaves Award. He lives in New Mexico.

Mauricio Trenard Sayago

Mauricio Trenard Sayago was born in Cuba and raised to believe in the power of art to educate and transform the individual and society. His goal is to use his work to simplify or change how people see their current realities so they can make the world a better place. He came to the United States in 2000 and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he uses painting to create images and explore himself in a different cultural context.

Awards

  • Aesop Prize Winner

    American Folklore Society

  • Best Children's Books of the Year

    Bank Street College of Education

  • Américas Award Commended Title

    Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs

  • Tejas Star Reading List

    Texas Library Association (TLA)

  • Anne Izard's Storytellers' Choice Award

    Westchester Library Association

Reviews

  • * "These 13 bilingual folktales introduce readers to Cuban classics, which are, in turn, heavily influenced by Spanish, African, and Caribbean cultures. The entertaining collection present readers with a variety of colorful characters. . . A great acquisition for upper elementary and middle school libraries, and an excellent resource for storytellers."

    - Críticas
  • "Hayes has a well-deserved reputation for classy, catchy retellings of Latino stories, predominately those from the desert Southwest of the United States. This collection takes him farther afield but maintains the quality of narrative and the characteristic 'tellability' that readers and storytellers have come to expect of him. . . Throughout, the tellings are clear and amusing, equally well adapted for reading or for listening."

    - School Library Journal
  • "Known for Mexican and Mexican-American stories, Hayes reaches beyond his usual borders and finds a strong new source of tales in Cuba. Thirteen stories are told on opposite pages in English and Spanish, ready to read aloud or to be tucked into storytellers' repertoires. They are lively, often funny and sometimes a bit scary. . . Eminently tellable, all the stories have refrains and songs sure to get audiences joining in."

    - Kirkus Reviews
  • "Folklore fans will find many of the stories' elements familiar: tricksters abound, characters both good and bad receive their just rewards, and families are happily reunited. Elements more specific to Cuban culture are also present, as in the stories that feature the Orishas, the holy ones of the Afro-Cuban religion Santería. The accessibility of Hayes' vivid but streamlined language coupled with rock-solid structure of the stories themselves (replete with the repetition and building of tension that tellers and listeners rely on) make this accessible both to young readers and to storytellers and other adult readers-aloud."

    - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
  • "Hayes has captured the essence and diversity of Cuba. Creation myths, legends and Pataki comprise this fascinating folktale anthology. Sayago's illustrations are a visual feast adding to the cultural details. . . . Perfect for teaching bilingual students or units on world myths in the classroom."

    - REFORMA

Hardcover

  • ISBN 9781933693170
  • Price $20.95
  • Publication Date Oct 01, 2008
  • Trim Size 10.9 × 9 × 0.6 in
  • Weight 0.4375 lbs
  • Page Count 96
  • Paperback

  • ISBN 9781947627444
  • Price $16.95
  • Publication Date Oct 01, 2008
  • Trim Size 9 × 6 in
  • Weight 0.5 lbs
  • Page Count 144
  • Interests

  • Imprint Cinco Puntos Press
  • Audience Middle Grade
  • BISAC Category 1 JUV / Legends, Myths, Fables / Caribbean & Latin American
  • BISAC Category 2 JUV / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Anthologies
  • BISAC Category 3 JUV / People & Places / Caribbean & Latin America
  • Themes Bilingual, Cultural Diversity, Diversity, Dual Language, Fiction, Folktale / Folklore / Traditional Literature, Latinx / Latino / Hispanic, Spanish
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 8 - 12
  • Grade Range Grades 3 - 7
  • Guided Reading T
  • Spanish Guided Reading U
  • DRA 44
  • Interest Level Grades 9 - 12
  • Reading Level Grades 9 - 10
  • Bebop Reading Fluent
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