The stories are organized by Tribe (The Achuar, The Shuar, The Huaorani, The Secoya, The Siona, the Quichua del Oriente, and the Cofan.
At the start of each story, we have placed a small map of Ecuador with the exact location of the tribe described in the story.
A short (1-2 pages) description/commentary about each Ecuadorian Amazon tribe which is highlighted in the story precedes each story to provide with information that will help English language readers better appreciate the stories more fully.
The stories focus on the children of this region and are told from their perspective--showing how the children in Ecuador Amazonia are taught to become stewards of the natural workld around them even as modernization begins to impinge on thier traditional culture.
These new changes will not only introduce young English readers to family life in the Amazonia jungle but help them get a better understanding of the challenges faced by these tribes and, especially, their children.
These changes will affect the delivery date--I had hoped for late April originally. But I expect books will now be delivered in mid-June.
I think that these changes will greatly augment and add value to the English readers' appreciation of these amazing stories.
When these stories appeared in the orginal Spanish edition, the book received the prestigious Honor Award from Skipping Stones, the nonprofit multicultural chidren's magazine.
The author's (Edna Iturralde) influence expands both through Latin America and into North America. In the United States four of her books were chosen to be part of the Common Core kits in the schools of Los Angeles,California and Houston, Texas. The Texas Librarty Assocation slected two of her books in 2016-2017 for its top tenbi-lingial books. Two of her books are part of the Required Summer Reading Books recommended by Scholastic Books. Three of her books including this translation have won Skipping Stones International Book Awards and five of her books won the International Latino Book Award.
GREEN WAS MY FOREST was selected as one of the ten "essential" books in a Latin American list of Childrens' and Young Adult Literature of the 20th Century by a panel of 27 experts from Latin American countries that was convoked by SM Foundation and the Directorate of Libraries, Archives, and Museums of Chile.
The book is often cited as the Latin American counterpart to the famous Welsh novel HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY by author, Richard Llewellyn which was made in to a movie in 1941 starring Walter Pidgeon , Maureen O'Hara and Roddy McDowell and won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941.

 

This is volume 2 in Young Eco Fiction .

This book has been graded for interest at 9+ years.

There are 136 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Mandel Vilar Press .

Ecuadorian author, Edna Iturralde , is considered the most important figure in children and young adult's literature in Latin America with nearly sixty published books. In 2014, her collection of short stories, Verde fue mi selva , now translated and published here in English for the first time as Green Was My Forest , was selected as one of the ten best children's books written in Latin America during the 20th Century. Iturralde's books are used in the school curriculum of Houston and Los Angeles. The Texas Library Association selected two of her books for its 2016-17 list of ten recommended books. Two of her books are part of the Required Summer Reading Books recommended by Scholastic Books. Three of her books have won the Skipping Stones International Book Prize, and five of her books won the International Latino Book Award. Jessica Powell , has translated dozens of works by a wide variety of Latin American writers. Her translation of Antonio Benitez Rojo's novel Woman in Battle Dress (City Lights, 2015) was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation. Her translation of Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya (Mandel Vilar Press, 2016), was named a finalist for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award and made the longlist for the 2017 National Translation Award. Her most recent translation, the first-ever English translation of Pablo Neruda's book-length poem, venture of the infinite man , was just published by City Lights Books in October of 2017.

This book has the following chapters: Chapter 1 The War
Chapter 2 The Vaccine
Chapter 3 Happiness
Chapter 4 The Hunt
Chapter 5 Nucep and the Dog Who Didn't Know How to Bark
Chapter 6 The Letters
Chapter 7 The Moon Boat
Chapter 8 Jaguars Go to Heaven
Chapter 9 The River
Chapter 10 The Magic Plants
Chapter 11 Green Was my Forest
Chapter 12 The People
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