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Border Lore: Folktales and Legends of South Texas by [David Bowles, José Meléndez]

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Border Lore: Folktales and Legends of South Texas Kindle Edition

by David Bowles (Author), José Meléndez (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition

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Award-winning translator and author David Bowles brings together twenty-five darkly memorable stories of the southern borderlands of Texas, retold in his unique voice. Ranging from the age-old folktales heard at his grandmother’s knee to urban legends collected down the years, each of these vital narratives is brought to stunning visual life by artist José Meléndez. An appendix classifies the pieces and enumerates motifs for scholarly research, and an introduction by noted folklorist Mark Glazer provides a larger context for the work.

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12 - 18 years
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144 pages
Language

English
Grade level

6 - 12
Publication date

April 5, 2016
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"Perhaps the best thing about this collection of short stories is that Bowles manages to deliver a wide array of styles. From vignettes that read like short stories about love gone wrong, to pieces that seem to have been pulled from a night spent telling scary stories around a fire, there's something for everyone here. In fact, despite the academic touches (something that comes accompanied by eight pages of notes that's proof of the work that went into the book and an invitation to explore further), there are passages that will even satisfy those who enjoy their folklore with a touch of horror."--Verbicide --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01DWOWNQO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lamar University Press (April 5, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 5, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2002 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #867,287 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #539 in Children's Folk Tales & Myth Collections
- #999 in Folklore & Mythology
- #1,901 in Folklore (Kindle Store)

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David Bowles

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David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from south Texas. He has written several award-winning titles, most notably THEY CALL ME GÜERO and MY TWO BORDER TOWNS. His work has also been published in multiple anthologies, plus venues such as The New York Times, School Library Journal, Strange Horizons, English Journal, Rattle, Translation Review, and the Journal of Children's Literature. David presently serves as vice president of the Texas Institute of Letters.

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Awesome Book! Scary too.

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2015

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What a great book! I could not put it down once I started reading these stories that make all the legends and folktales come to life. They are so vividly narrated, like "The Ghosts of Fort Brown, "Chupacabras in Mission," "The Flying Witch of Monterrey," "The Witch Owl," "La Llorona by the Canal," and the wild "Curse of the Black Witch Moth." I was genuinely frightened in a cool way here (to "The Sack Man," get out of my head now!). I can't wait to share these stories with more people. I also liked the pages of notes at the end, recording initial reception of stories and contextualizing them, making this book essential to scholars of folklore and urban legends - as well as exciting to readers! Also good for read-alouds and scaring the heck out of yourself or friends.

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Ixtaca Yaotl

alright buy

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2020

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Great stories, some already well known, but the one thing that got to me was that the book was just a bit too wordy to properly enjoy and read to children.

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More personal than historical.

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2020

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The stories are a bit “meh.” Was definitely looking for a more historical look at folktales from the border. If I’m not mistaken all the resources for the stories seem to be family, friends, or friends of friends. More of the writer’s personal experience with folk tales than an overall telling of them. Not what I expected, but not terrible. Art was fantastic and it’s a quick read.

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2018

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Couldn't put this one down! Love having these classic stories together in one collection. David Bowles' representation of these well-known stories does justice to the tales we've heard for years. Wonderful work!

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AlexThoth

I enjoyed this collection very much

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2017

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I enjoyed this collection very much. The tales reminded me of my grandmother's ghost stories. Some of the stories were a bit too short and I would've loved to have explored them further, but as the old adage goes, "Always leave them wanting more," right?

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SoCal Artist

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2018

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These tales remind of the stories we as kids used to tell. Not exactly what I was hoping for.

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