Watch Out for Clever Women / Cuidado con las mujeres astutas - Hardcover

Hayes, Joe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1947627007 ISBN 13: 9781947627000

Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press, 2019

Synopsis

A bilingual collection of humorous trickster tales, in which women pit their formidable intelligence to outwit villains, husbands, brothers, fathers, and sweethearts. From the kind woman who tricked two men who thought they had robbed her of a ham to the woman who saved her gold by tricking her foolish husband into thinking it had snowed tortillas, these tales cultivate lessons of honesty, goodness, hospitality, and honor―not to mention intelligence and wit to survive. As Joe Hayes points out, “People the world over tell stories of a humble individual tricking an overbearing person of higher status, but the idea is especially cherished in Hispanic storylore. Making the trickster a woman adds spice to the trick.”

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Review

“At once a fun language lesson and a feminist story collection, this serves as a good introduction to folklore that celebrates the poor in the face of hardship.”―Kirkus Reviews

[The book] brings together 10 stories of wit, daring and just deserts by Joe Hayes. Each starts with a realistic pencil drawing by Vicki Trego Hill and a paragraph in both English and Spanish, then breaks for easier reading into English text on the left pages and Spanish on the right.―Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal

"American Southwest storyteller Hayes retells ten folktales, five new and five from the 1994 original edition, with straightforward, often funny text in both English and Spanish. In these tales, women's cunning saves the day from people with unsavory intentions (would-be thieves) or unfortunate habits (husbands who can't keep a secret)."―Shoshana Flax, The Horn Book

About the Author

Joe Hayes is a nationally recognized author and storyteller. His Cinco Puntos Collection has sold well over 1,000,000 copies. Joe lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and travels extensively throughout the United States, visiting schools and storytelling festivals.

Vicki Trego Hill is the illustrator for the classic, best-selling ghost story La Llorona, the Weeping Woman by Joe Hayes. She has been a principal book designer for Cinco Puntos Press since its inception in 1985.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1947627007
• ISBN 13: 9781947627000
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160