The pear tree : a folktale /
Gray, Luli,
The pear tree : a folktale / retold by Luli Gray ; illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight. - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
A retelling of the folk tale "Tia Miseria y la Muerte."
"In this retelling of an old folktale, an old woman named Esperanza (originally called Tia Miseria) gives her last pear to a beggar and is rewarded with the best pear crop she's ever had--and the power to ensnare anyone she wants in her tree. When Señor Death comes for her, Esperanza tricks him into climbing her tree, where he becomes stuck, unable to come down and do his work. From that point on, no one dies. But when Esperanza learns that the end of death doesn't mean the end of suffering, she agrees to let Señor Death down from her tree."-- NetGalley web site.
Ages 8-12.
0999658468 9780999658468
Death--Juvenile fiction.
Suffering--Juvenile fiction.
Hope--Juvenile fiction.
Trees--Juvenile fiction.
Tales--Spain--Juvenile fiction.
Folk tales.
Picture books.
The pear tree : a folktale / retold by Luli Gray ; illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight. - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
A retelling of the folk tale "Tia Miseria y la Muerte."
"In this retelling of an old folktale, an old woman named Esperanza (originally called Tia Miseria) gives her last pear to a beggar and is rewarded with the best pear crop she's ever had--and the power to ensnare anyone she wants in her tree. When Señor Death comes for her, Esperanza tricks him into climbing her tree, where he becomes stuck, unable to come down and do his work. From that point on, no one dies. But when Esperanza learns that the end of death doesn't mean the end of suffering, she agrees to let Señor Death down from her tree."-- NetGalley web site.
Ages 8-12.
0999658468 9780999658468
Death--Juvenile fiction.
Suffering--Juvenile fiction.
Hope--Juvenile fiction.
Trees--Juvenile fiction.
Tales--Spain--Juvenile fiction.
Folk tales.
Picture books.