La Llorona / The Weeping Woman (English and Spanish Edition)

The classic halloween story La Llorona / The weeping woman in a different,spookier version.Book arrived very quickly in perfect shape, just on time for our halloween celebration. Thank you!

This is a great book! I recall the stories of La Llorona when I was a child. La Llorona lives in many Mexican songs and her story captures your imagination. It is very cleverly written. At first glance I was worried the story may be too frightening for my grandchildren but the author handles La Llorona's death very well. While the title refers to "The Weeping Woman", as I was told, La Llorona's wail, howl and anguish could be heard late at night. Be sure, she did not merely weep!The story is about a very vain woman and vain man who live in Mexico and get married. Unfortunately, in time the husband loses interest in his wife (the vain woman) and devotes his attention to their two children. The wife, La Llorona, becomes jealous and decides to seek revenge by throwing their children in a river. This story has been around for many, many years and still serves the purpose of getting kids in the house before dark when La Llorona has been heard wailing as she looks for her children. Hurry home before La Llorona mistakes you for one of her unfortunate children!

The weeping woman is traditional Latin American tale to scare children. This rendition is great. It open up doors to conversing with your children or your students about the bigger issues in this book. Such topics, as obsession, narcissism, arrogance, vengeance, control and domination call be discussed with this book. The book is bilingual which is a plus, but the Spanish is pretty simple for native speakers. Non-native beginner and intermediate students will find it a little challenging. It is story that never gets old. It also fun to tell, because many believe it to be true from the time of "la malinche". She helped Cortez conquer hers and other native peoples of the new world.It is a little too violent for really young children, but it is a scary story so use your discretion in telling this tale to children under 7.

This a great children's book. The illustrations by themselves are worth the money I paid. I love this book, it will definitely be a book I pass down to my children.

Love this book and plus that it had some Spanish in it for the kiddos

GREAT BOOK that doesn't sugar-coat the story at all- A sad story, but good to tell for groups of OLDER school-age children. If you are able, ask a colleague to don a woman's halloween mask and a white sheet... have them enter the room toward the end of the story- or at the end- works every time! Sure, upper graders in this day and age can be a little jaded, but don't let that stop you! They will appreciate this.

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Really interesting story

Excellent and well delivered scary story in English and Spanish. However, this story is not exactly a Mexican one because -perhaps- in all Latin-American countries this tale is very well known. It is the same story, maybe, with its own regional or local variations. The author -in my opinion- should had presented a book with more substance to depict how La Llorona scares real people.

I think this was a fantastic little book that tells of this story. It's got lovely artwork and the English and Spanish is great to keep kids bilingual. It really is a kids version and it is a very condensed version of the story.