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The Secret Footprints

The Secret Footprints( )
Author: Alvarez, Julia
Illustrator: Negrin, Fabian
Editor: Cascardi, Andrea
ISBN:978-0-679-99309-4
Publication Date:Sep 2000
Publisher:Random House Children's Books
Imprint:Knopf Books for Young Readers
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $18.99
Book Description:

Este entretenido libro, dirigido especialmente a lectores entre cuatro y siete años, recrea una leyenda tradicional del folclor de República Dominicana. Relata la historia de los ciguapas, un pueblo mítico que habita en las profundidades marinas y tiene la piel dorada y el cabello oscuro. Los ciguapas son hermosos e inteligentes y tienen una característica física muy especial: sus pies no apuntan hacia delante -como ocurre con los humanos- sino hacia atrás, para que al caminar nadie...
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Book Details
Pages:40
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories
Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8 x 10 x 0.38 Inches
Book Weight:0.928 Pounds
Author Biography
Alvarez, Julia (Author)
Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950 and was raised in the Dominican Republic. Before becoming a full-time writer, she traveled across the country with poetry-in-the-schools programs and then taught at the high school level and the college level. In 1991, she earned tenure at Middlebury College and published her first book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, which won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991. Her other works include In the Time of the Butterflies, The Other Side of El Otro Lado, and Once upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA.

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