Watch Out for Clever Women: Cuidado Con Las Mujeres Astutas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781947627000)

Storytelling World Honor Award, Storytelling World

Folktales with an affirmative action twist: In each a woman uses her wits to overcome adversity.

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."

Author: Joe Hayes
ISBN-10: 1947627007
ISBN-13: 9781947627000
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2019
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.8
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 13755 / Watch Out for Clever Women!


Review Citation(s):
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2019 pg. 155
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average