South American Folktales

• Aletom and the Falling Sky (Mocovi myth)
• Best-loved folktales of the world. By Cole, Joanna and Schwartz, Jill Karla.
• Gauchada by C. DREW LAMM,
• Golden tales : myths, legends, and folktales from Latin America / retold and illustrated by Lulu Delacre.
• Huatya Curi and the Five Condors (Huarochiri myth)
• James the Vine Puller: A Brazilian Folktale by Martha Bennett Stiles, Larry Thomas (Illustrator)
• Latin American Folktales : Stories from Hispanic and Indian Traditions (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library.)by JOHN BIERHORST
• Love & roast chicken by Knutson from the Andes area
• Mira and the Stone Tortoise (Kulina tale)
• Moon Rope/Un lazo a la luna by Lois Ehlert,
• Mother Scorpion Country by Harriet Rohmer
• Oppossum and the great firemaker by Mike, Jan A.
• Quetzalcoatl: A Tale of Corn by Marilyn Parke
• Rain Player by David Wisnieswki
• Rosa Raposa by F. Isobel Campo
• Song of the Sun  (Aztec myth)
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• Tatterhood and Other Tales: Stories of Magic and Adventure by Ethel Johnston Phelps, Pamela Baldwin Ford (Illustrator)
• The Dancing Turtle: A Folktale from Brazil by Pleasant Despain
• The Llama's Secret: A Peruvian Legend by Argentina Palacios
• The Magic Bean Tree : A Legend from Argentina by Nancy Van Laan
• The Magic Orange Tree : and Other Haitian Folktales by DIANE WOLKSTEIN
• The Moon People (Carib myth)
• The Sea Serpent's Daughter: A Brazilian Legend by Margaret H. Lippert
• The invisible hunters : a legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua Rohmer, Harriet and Sam, Joe.
• The legend of the poinsettia : a Christmas story by dePaola, Tomie.
• The tale of Rabbit and Coyote by Johnston, Tony and dePaola, Tomie. Tales from silver lands by Finger, Charles Joseph.
• Zorro and Quwi: tales of a trickster guinea pig Hickox, Rebecca (Brazil)

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