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Jungle Tales

Horacio Quiroga

Jungle Tales

Paper book: €17.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1918
Pages
137
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Children's Literature
Moods
Be enchanted, Feel comforted, Have a laugh
Translated from
Spanish

Book summary

In the forest along the Paraná River, the animals talk, work and quarrel. In these eight tales, a giant turtle carries the man who had once nursed it all the way to the city, flamingos go to a ball in snakeskin stockings, and the crocodiles go to war against a ship.

Horacio Quiroga wrote these stories for his children, in the forest where he lived. They are funny, sometimes cruel, and one of them explains why flamingos have red legs.

Short and written in simple sentences, these tales can be read one by one in the language you are learning.

The plot

Caimans against the boats. Hundreds of caimans live in a great river. One day, the noise of a steamboat scares away all their fish.

The world of the book

A forest on the Paraná River. Most of the tales in this book take place in the Misiones forest, in northeastern Argentina, between Brazil and Paraguay. The great Paraná River runs along it. It is hot and humid there…

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