Domi

With the help of his friends, Tio Sapo, the toad, defeats the overconfident Tio Venado, the deer, in a race.

A collection of traditional Guatemalan stories, tales, and legends.

In this bilingual cooking poem for young children, Jorge Argueta encourages more creativity and fun in the kitchen as he describes how to make tamalitos from corn masa and cheese, wrapped in cornhusks. The book opens with an homage to corn - white, yellow, blue, purple, red and black. In Maya mythology, the first men and women are even said to be made of corn. It has been an important food for people in Central America for centuries, and one of the...

Seven-year-old Ixkem is chosen by her grandfather amongst all the villagers to inherit the responsibility for tending his special cornfield. Ixkem goes to the field and begins to shout and stomp to frighten away the animals who would like to share the harvest. Suddenly a mass of tiny creatures appear - the b'e'n - secret animal spirits of which there is one for every human on earth. They take Ixkem into the underworld, where she tells them the amazing...