La sirena y el pescador is a traditional folktale of the Rio Balsas region of Mexico, written in the Nahuatl language of San Agustín Oapan, Guerrero and accompanied by a Spanish translation. It tells the story of a young boy who must escape from his family after “Aalamatsin”, the mermaid and mother of all fish, wants the boy as a sacrifice in exchange for the release and pardon of his father, who betrayed his own wife and exploited the inhabitants of the river by overfishing it.
- ISBN: 9789684114098
- Author: Farfan, Jose Antonio
- Published: 2002 , Era Edicions Sa
- Themes: Adventure, Indigenous
- Descriptors: Americas, Fantasy, Latin America, Mexico, Myths and Legends, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)