The Secret Legacy

Klappentext Rigoberta Menchu returns to the world of childhood in this! her third book. The novel's seven-year-old heroine! Ixkem! is chosen to tend to the prized cornfields once her grandfather has passed away. But Ixkem isn't sure she can accept this great responsibility. Out in the fields! she discovers a legion of tiny people! no bigger than bananas. They are "b'e'n! nahuales" -- secret animal spirits -- and when they take Ixkem into the underworld where they live! she regales them with tales of the surface. What they offer in return helps Ixkem to accept both her grandfather's wishes for her and the fact that she must soon wish him goodbye. This moving story is rich with emotion and Mayan folklore! perfect to captivate any young reader.

Product details

• Authors: Dante Liano, Rigoberta Menchu, Rigoberta/ Liano Menchu, Rigoberta Menchú
• Assisted by: Domi (Illustration), David Unger (Translation)
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 4
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2008
• EAN: 9780888998965
• ISBN: 978-0-88899-896-5
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs > Fairytales and sagas; Children's Books / Ages 9-12 Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / General