Willimantic, CT, Estados Unidos : Curbstone Press, c1991.

120 p. : il. ; 23 cm.

Author's preface. -- Introduction. -- The bird who cleans the world. -- From mouse to bat. -- The affair of the horns. -- How the serpent was born. -- The first monkeys. -- Sometimes right is repaid with wrong. -- The disobedient child. -- The tail of the dog. -- The toadand the buzzard. -- The toad and the crab. -- The proof of the mice. -- Laziness should not rule us. -- Advice from a jackass. -- Who cuts the trees cuts his own life. -- The ungrateful alligator. -- The little boy who talked with birds. -- The child who saw visions. -- The snail and the minnow. -- The curious mice. -- The work of the mosquito. -- The war of the wasps. -- The king of the animals. -- The loudmouth and death. -- The hen and the frog. -- The man and the buzzard. -- The vulture and the sparrow hawk. -- The buzzard and the dove. -- The possum and the jaguar. -- The lazy man. -- The Great Jaguar. -- The skunk and the rabbit. -- The old one's friendship: the dog, the jaguar, and the coyote. -- Notes. --

Tomado de la cubierta: "The bird who cleans the world and other Mayan fables is a collection of Jakaltek Mayan folk tales, first told to the author by his mother and the elders of his Guatemalan village. They deal with the themes of creation, nature, mutual respect, and ethnic relations and conflitcs. Told here for the first time in English and illustrated with Mayan images, these stories and fables speak eloquently of an ancient culture, at once preserving its history and recreating its tradition."

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