Tio Culebra = Uncle Snake

Contributor(s): Gollub, Matthew (Author), Martinez, Leovigildo (Illustrator), Guzmán Ferrer, Martín Luis (Translator)

ISBN: 9781889910246

Publisher: Tortuga Press

Binding Types:

Paperback

$6.95

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$19.90 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$18.70 (100+ copies: $17.95)

List/retail price:

$6.95

Pub Date: January 1, 2002

Dewey: E

LCCN: 2001133107

Lexile Code: 0740

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 07 to 09

Physical Info: 0.14" H x 8.30" L x 10.76" W ( 0.36 lbs) 32 pages

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Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000053220 ( Tio Culebra = Uncle Snake)

Reading level: 3.90

Interest level: LG

Point value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: In this mysterious tale set in ancient Mexico, something unearthly happens when a boy enters a forbidden cave. No curandero can change him back. Only the nahual, a shape-changing magic worker, can see beyond the horizon: "You are destined," he tells the boy, "to show the world something new." Twenty years later, the boy is a young man, known to village children as "Uncle Snake." Finally, it's time to discover the glorious change that awaits him. On this third collaboration, Matthew Gollub and Leovigildo Martínez have woven a captivating story, again set amid the rich folk culture of Mr. Martínez's native Oaxaca.

Américas Commended Book
Artwork honored by the Society of Illustrators in New York
Paintings and text displayed in over 20 museums nationwide

Review Quotes: "A wonderful original folktale...filled with curanderos, snakes and fiesta dances." --School Library Journal