Review of The Elephant and His Secret by Doris Dana; based on a fable by Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral is primarily known for her poetry and is the only Latin American woman to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1945). Born in Chile in 1889, as Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, she struggled through childhood on the brink of poverty and the reality that education was hard to come by for small communities and even harder for a woman. Her work carries themes of nature, sorrow and love. She is said to have been deeply affected by her the suicide of her lover, Romelio Ureta and later in her life by her nephew, whom she considered like a son.
Throughout her life, she worked to better the education system in Chile and internationally, even holding a position with the League of Nations. She has the honors of appearing on the Chilean 5,000 peso and received three days of national mourning after her death in 1957.
Gabriela Mistral is primarily known for her poetry and is the only Latin American woman to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1945). Born in Chile in 1889, as Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, she struggled through childhood on the brink of poverty and the reality that education was hard to come by for small communities and even harder for a woman. Her work carries themes of nature, sorrow and love. She is said to have been deeply affected by her the suicide of her lover, Romelio Ureta and later in her life by her nephew, whom she considered like a son.
Throughout her life, she worked to better the education system in Chile and internationally, even holding a position with the League of Nations. She has the honors of appearing on the Chilean 5,000 peso and received three days of national mourning after her death in 1957.
Dusk by Gabriela Mistral Creed by Gabriela Mistral | Death Sonnet I by Gabriela Mistral |
The Elephant and His Secret is short-story describing the mysterious reasons behind the elephant's physical features. How did the elephant get to be so big, have oddly proportionally small eyes and tail, and his majestic ivory tusk? Without spoiling too much of the storyline to this ~ 20 page work, the elephants secret has a Noah's Ark theme. This delightful little tale is presented in dual-language with Spanish on one side of the page and English on the other.
[Notice: Original posting 2014-02-05 at Plethora of Books Blog: http://bookchallenges.weebly.com]
Tags: 2014, Children's
[Notice: Original posting 2014-02-05 at Plethora of Books Blog: http://bookchallenges.weebly.com]
Tags: 2014, Children's