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Twelve stories exploring the way of life, culture, customs, and ancestral wisdom of indigenous groups living in Ecuador's Equatorial Amazon.
List of contents
Chapter 1 The War
Chapter 2 The Vaccine
Chapter 3 Happiness
Chapter 4 The Hunt
Chapter 5 Nucep and the Dog Who Didn’t Know How to Bark
Chapter 6 The Letters
Chapter 7 The Moon Boat
Chapter 8 Jaguars Go to Heaven
Chapter 9 The River
Chapter 10 The Magic Plants
Chapter 11 Green Was my Forest
Chapter 12 The People
Bibliography
About the author
Ecuadorian author, Edna Iturralde, is considered the most important figure in children and young adult's literature in Latin America with nearly sixty published books. In 2014, her collection of short stories, Verde fue mi selva, now translated and published here in English for the first time as Green Was My Forest, was selected as one of the ten best children’s books written in Latin America during the 20th Century. Iturralde’s books are used in the school curriculum of Houston and Los Angeles. The Texas Library Association selected two of her books for its 2016-17 list of ten recommended books. Two of her books are part of the Required Summer Reading Books recommended by Scholastic Books. Three of her books have won the Skipping Stones International Book Prize, and five of her books won the International Latino Book Award.
Jessica Powell, has translated dozens of works by a wide variety of Latin American writers. Her translation of Antonio Benítez Rojo's novel Woman in Battle Dress (City Lights, 2015) was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation. Her translation of Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya (Mandel Vilar Press, 2016), was named a finalist for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award and made the longlist for the 2017 National Translation Award. Her most recent translation, the first-ever English translation of Pablo Neruda’s book-length poem, venture of the infinite man, was just published by City Lights Books in October of 2017.
Summary
Twelve stories exploring the way of life, culture, customs, and ancestral wisdom of indigenous groups living in Ecuador’s Equatorial Amazon.
Foreword
A North American author multi-city tour for Edna Iturralde is being organized. The book will be promoted by ads in national publications and by a massive social media campaign. Her book will be promoted by national and international environmental groups such as World Wildlife Foundation, Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and many other similar groups around the country.
In the United States, four of her books were chosen to be part of the Common Core kits in the schools in Los Angeles, California and Houston Texas. The Texas Library Association selected two of her bi-lingual books for its 2016-17 list of ten recommended bi-lingual books. Two of her books are part of the Required Summer Reading Books recommended by Scholastic Books. Three of her books have won the Skipping Stones International Book Prize, and five of her books won the International Latino Book Award. In Mexico, three of her books were also chosen, in different years, by the SEP, the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education, to be part of all the school libraries in that country.
