When a young teacher sets out to the remote community of Las Delicias in the Amazon rain forest, she is eager to share her knowledge of science, math and geography. While the town’s children love the books she brings, they still keep repeating the legend about a great and dangerous serpent. While in disbelief that her young students could still care about the nonsense of folk tales, the river begins to rise, and suddenly the stories don’t seem to be nonsense after all. Perhaps there are other ways to learn wisdom of past generations besides in books.
- ISBN: 9780802856173
- Author: Irene Vasco
- Illustrator: Juan Palomino
- Translator: Lawrence Schimel
- Published: 2023 , Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
- Themes: Amazon Rainforest, Books, Children, education, folktales, Stories, Storytelling, teacher, Wisdom
- Descriptors: Colombia, Fiction, Primary (ages 6-9), USBBY Outstanding International Book
- No. of pages: 40