Folk Tales From Chile

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Bookcover featuring a llama and a Mapuche man in the Chilean countryside playing a flute

A compilation of Chilean folklore and children's bedtime stories written by Brenda Hughes and illustrated by Dick de Wilde. It totals 15 stories The White Coulds Daughter, The Pincoya's Daughter, The Magic Cow, The Girl who turned to Stone, The Princess and the Riddle, The Old Man and the Beanstalk, The Little Tenca and the Snowflake, The Magic Ring, Daughters of the Kalku, The Strawberry Maid, The Story of the Chonchon(chonchón), How Nanco won a Wife, The Machi and the Nguruvilu, How the Poppies grew, and, The Legend of Lake Aculeo. The publisher is Hippocrene Books, INC, New York. The book was originally published in 1962 by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London. It retails for US$12.50.

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