Hernandez, Jaime The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America,
40 pages. GRAPHIC NOVEL Toon Graphics (Candlewick), 2017. $17. Content: G.
Three different folktales are included in
this graphic novel. The first is called
The Dragon Slayer and is about a young girl who uses a magical truth wand to
help the boy she loves from being sacrificed to a dragon. The second story is
Martina Martinez and Perez the Mouse about a woman who attracts all sorts of
animals, but finds her true love in a rat, but he falls into a soup pot and a
wise woman from town has to save him. The third story is Tup and the Aunts about a
boy who convinces a colony of aunts to do all of his chores of planting a corn
field.
Although the three stories are
completely different they are all entertaining with different morals to the
story. The illustrations are cartoon-ish
but well done. I enjoyed these stories
and there are author’s notes at the beginning and the end that explain why we
have folktales and more history on the three folktales in this book. I would imagine this has a limited audience and would probably most effectively be used by a Literature teacher in a Folktales unit.
EL (K-3), EL – OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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