Green Was My Forest

Green Was my Forest (Verde fue mi selva; Alfaguara Infantíl, 2002; later reissued by Editorial Santillana, 2013), is the first English-language translation of Edna Iturralde's best-known and most popular book. Published in Mexico, Spain, and Ecuador, the Spanish version is being used widely in schools in all three countries. Verde fue mi selva has won numerous awards and honors, and, in 2010 was named by the SM Foundation and the Directorate of Libraries, Archives and Museums of Chile...
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Green Was my Forest (Verde fue mi selva; Alfaguara Infantíl, 2002; later reissued by Editorial Santillana, 2013), is the first English-language translation of Edna Iturralde's best-known and most popular book. Published in Mexico, Spain, and Ecuador, the Spanish version is being used widely in schools in all three countries. Verde fue mi selva has won numerous awards and honors, and, in 2010 was named by the SM Foundation and the Directorate of Libraries, Archives and Museums of Chile to the canon of the ten ¿essential¿ works of Latin American children¿s and juvenile fiction of the 20th century. Green Was my Forest is a collection of thirteen short stories about each of Ecuador's six remaining Amazon indigenous groups, told from the point-of-view of the indigenous children themselves. In simple, yet beautiful language, the stories explore the culture, customs and ancestral wisdom of the indigenous groups living in the Equatorial Amazon, highlighting their collective love, respect and custodianship of the natural world. Recommended for children eight years and up, the stories in Green Was My Forest both entertain and educate the reader, offering a rare perspective on these indigenous Ecuadorian peoples whose culture and way of life are continuously being threatened by outsiders and the forces of capitalism and modernization.