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Jungle Tales

Horacio Quiroga

Jungle Tales

Paper book: €14.99

Digital: €3.99

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

ワニたちと船の戦い。大きな川に、何百匹ものワニが暮らしている。ある日、蒸気船の音におびえて、魚がみんな逃げてしまう。

The world of the book

パラナ川のほとりの森。この本の物語の多くは、アルゼンチン北東部、ブラジルとパラグアイにはさまれたミシオネスの森が舞台だ。森のそばを大河パラナ川が流れる。暑くて湿気が多く、植物はとても大きく育つ。ワニやオウム、ヘビ、ミツバチが暮らし、この物語のなかでは互いに言葉を交わす。

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