On the banks of the Yabibiri
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On the banks of the Yabibiri
14.99 €
Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937) is rightly called the "Uruguayan Kipling". After living for several years in the jungle of the jungle in the jungle of Latin America, he wrote beautiful tales about the wild inhabitants of these places, their complex, sometimes tragic lives and relationships with man.
The book includes six tales. Their plots are unusual, but the essence is simple: you should help your neighbor, do not envy, listen to your mother, be grateful for kindness and help and do not unleash senseless wars. In gratitude for the rescue of the turtle, in turn, saved a man in trouble; flamingos at any cost wanted to be the most beautiful at the festival, but snakes punished them for stupidity and vanity; chatty but clever parrot cleverly avenged the malicious jaguar; crocodiles reclaimed their water space from aggressive human warriors; a kind hunter cured a small doe who suffered because of his disobedience; stingrays, fish and capybara pig protected humans from greedy jaguars. And all these exotic animals of the Latin American forests - crocodiles, jaguars, capybaras, etc. - exemplify good and evil, like our bears, wolves, foxes and hares in Russian folk tales. Horacio Quiroga's tales have an important property: there is nothing in them that would not be accessible to the perception of a child of five-seven years old. And there is a lot in them that awakens children's imagination. Expressive and reliable illustrations by Peter Bagin open before the little reader a new world with unusual heroes-animals, without breaking the fairy tale narrative. The book will appeal to fans of fairy tales of the peoples of the world of all ages, but first of all to children from five years old.
The book includes six tales. Their plots are unusual, but the essence is simple: you should help your neighbor, do not envy, listen to your mother, be grateful for kindness and help and do not unleash senseless wars. In gratitude for the rescue of the turtle, in turn, saved a man in trouble; flamingos at any cost wanted to be the most beautiful at the festival, but snakes punished them for stupidity and vanity; chatty but clever parrot cleverly avenged the malicious jaguar; crocodiles reclaimed their water space from aggressive human warriors; a kind hunter cured a small doe who suffered because of his disobedience; stingrays, fish and capybara pig protected humans from greedy jaguars. And all these exotic animals of the Latin American forests - crocodiles, jaguars, capybaras, etc. - exemplify good and evil, like our bears, wolves, foxes and hares in Russian folk tales. Horacio Quiroga's tales have an important property: there is nothing in them that would not be accessible to the perception of a child of five-seven years old. And there is a lot in them that awakens children's imagination. Expressive and reliable illustrations by Peter Bagin open before the little reader a new world with unusual heroes-animals, without breaking the fairy tale narrative. The book will appeal to fans of fairy tales of the peoples of the world of all ages, but first of all to children from five years old.
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