Mexican Bestiary
By David Bowles
2012
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Who protects our precious fields of corn? What leaps from the darkness when you least suspect it? Which spirit waits for little kids by rivers and lakes? From the ahuizotl to the xocoyoles-and all the imps, ghosts and witches in between-this illustrated bilingual encyclopedia tells you just what you need to know about the things that go bump in the night in Mexico and the US Southwest. Quien protege nuestras milpas preciosas? Que cosa salta de la oscuridad cuando menos te lo esperes? Cual espiritu acecha a los pequenos cerca de los rios y los lagos? Desde el ahuizotl a los xocoyoles-y demas diablillos, fantasmas y brujas-esta enciclopedia ilustrada bilingue te dice justo lo que debes saber sobre las cosas que dan miedo en Mexico y en el suroeste de los Estados Unidos.
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Author
David Bowles
Author · 25 books
David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from south Texas. He has written several award-winning titles, most notably THEY CALL ME GÜERO and MY TWO BORDER TOWNS His work has also been published in multiple anthologies, plus venues such as The New York Times, Strange Horizons, School Library Journal, Rattle, Translation Review, and the Journal of Children’s Literature. Additionally, David has worked on several TV/film projects. In 2019, he co-founded the hashtag and activist movement #DignidadLiteraria, which has negotiated greater Latinx representation in publishing. He is presently the vice president of the Texas Institute of Letters.
