LA LLORONA / THE WEEPING WOMAN

Generations of Mexican children have grown up afraid of La Llorona - a wailing woman whose misdeeds in life have left her spirit trapped on Earth. She's the stuff of legend - a myth and spooky bedtime story whose origins date back hundreds of years.

Have you ever heard the story of La Llorona, the ghost woman they say is crying and crying for her children? In this bilingual Spanish and English edition, LA LLORONA/THE WEEPING WOMAN retells the tale of a beautiful woman whose fear and jealousy dooms her to an eternal search for all she's lost. ¿Has escuchado alguna vez la historia de La Llorona, la mujer fantasma que dicen que llora y llora por sus hijos? En español e ingles, La Llorona cuenta la historia de una hermosa mujer cuyo miedo y celos la condenan a una búsqueda eterna de todo lo que ha perdido. Joe Hayes is one of America's premier storytellers. He grew up in a small town in southern Arizona where he started learning Spanish from his classmates. As Joe got older, he began reading the work of folklorists and anthropologists and gathering the old stories from the Southwest region. His books have received the Arizona Young Readers Award, two Land of Enchantment Children's Book Awards, the Texas Bluebonnet award, and the National Storytelling Network Talking Leaves Award. He lives in New Mexico.