llorona (legendary character)

A retelling, in English and Spanish, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.

In ancient Mexico, beautiful Maya's children are endangered by the threat of Senor Tiempo who, jealous of their immortality, plots to destroy them.

Expands on a popular Mexican folktale about a ghost that haunts riverbanks at night, crying as she searches for her lost children.

A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.

A dramatization of the sad and haunting Mexican legend, the Crying Woman, about the Spanish conquistador Hern?n Cort?s and a native Mexican woman who served as his translator.

This book explores the accounts of La Llorona, the crying woman, a legend about a spirit that killed her two children and now roams riverbanks and lakeshores in search of prey, usually children.

Expands on a popular Mexican folktale about a ghost that haunts riverbanks at night, crying as she searches for her lost children.

A bilingual story in English and Spanish in which a young Mexican-American girl named Prietita becomes lost in her search for an herb to cure her mother and is aided by the legendary ghost woman.

In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more.

A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.