Joe Hayes is one of America's premier storytellers. He grew up in a small town in southern Arizona where he learned Spanish from his classmates. As he got older, Joe began gathering old stories from the Southwest. Joe has earned a distinctive role as a bilingual storyteller. Artist and musician Honorio Robledo has done two books with Cinco Puntos: El Cucuy and Nico Visits the Moon, and a book with Children's Book Press. He and his wife Luana recently moved to Mexico so their children could grow up barefoot.
"It's no wonder that Hayes has a reputation in the Southwest and beyond as a premier storyteller. This is a tale that is meant to be read aloud with a group (and maybe even in the dark). . . The authentically regional Spanish text reads very smoothly. Recommended for public libraries and bookstores." -- Cr�ticas "Known for his bilingual retelling of the ghost story La Llorona, the Weeping Woman (1987), Hayes now delights with his bilingual version of a tale featuring southwestern bogeyman el Cucuy. . . Not the book for truly timid tots, but this masterfully told story belongs in the hands of those scoffing, hard-case customers who challenge you to find them a really scary story." -- Booklist "This bilingual retelling is a welcome addition for Spanish speakers who may recognize the bogeyman as el Cucuy." -- School Library Journal "[This] retelling has just the right touch." -- Children's Literature "Kids will appreciate this chilling cautionary tale, best enjoyed during the daylight hours." -- Publishers Weekly "After a good scare, children will delight in the happy ending!" -- Book Talk
Respected raconteur Hayes (La Llorona, The Weeping Woman) offers a forewarning in the guise of a potentially scary story featuring a familiar figure in the folklore of the American Southwest. His easygoing, bilingual narrative first introduces el Cucuy, a gigantic bogeyman with a crooked back and a large, glowing red ear who is known to come "down from his cave in the mountains to carry bad children away." Readers then meet two lazy sisters who play all day and refuse to help their younger sibling clean house and cook for their widowed father. After warning the delinquent duo that he is going to call the bogeyman on them, the father makes good on his threat and the ominous creature snatches the girls from the dinner table and brings them into the deepest part of his spider-filled cave. Robledo's shadowy, stylized paintings with background shadings reminiscent of El Greco's works capture the terror of the wide-eyed sisters. Their captivity allows them time to reflect on the error of their ways; and when a goatherd rescues them, they discover that their father and sister were searching for them. Youngest readers may be put off by some of the book's gloomier images, despite the happy ending. But most will appreciate this chilling cautionary tale, best enjoyed during the daylight hours. Ages 9-12. (May) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
"It's no wonder that Hayes has a reputation in the Southwest and beyond as a premier storyteller. This is a tale that is meant to be read aloud with a group (and maybe even in the dark)... The authentically regional Spanish text reads very smoothly. Recommended for public libraries and bookstores." -- Criticas
"Known for his bilingual retelling of the ghost story La Llorona, the Weeping Woman (1987), Hayes now delights with his bilingual version of a tale featuring southwestern bogeyman el Cucuy... Not the book for truly timid tots, but this masterfully told story belongs in the hands of those scoffing, hard-case customers who challenge you to find them a really scary story." -- Booklist
"This bilingual retelling is a welcome addition for Spanish speakers who may recognize the bogeyman as el Cucuy." -- School Library Journal
"[This] retelling has just the right touch." -- Children's Literature
"Kids will appreciate this chilling cautionary tale, best enjoyed during the daylight hours." -- Publishers Weekly
"After a good scare, children will delight in the happy ending!" -- Book Talk
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