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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

Kaaimannen tegen boten. Honderden kaaimannen leven in een grote rivier. Op een dag jaagt het lawaai van een stoomboot al hun vissen weg.

The world of the book

Een oerwoud aan de Paraná. De meeste verhalen in het boek spelen zich af in het oerwoud van Misiones, in het noordoosten van Argentinië, tussen Brazilië en Paraguay. De grote rivier de Paraná stroomt erlangs. Het is er…

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