Rudolfo A Anaya

In ancient Mexico, beautiful Maya's children are endangered by the threat of Seǫr Tiempo who, jealous of their immortality, plots to destroy them.

Ollie the owl learns that to become wise and successful he must stop skipping school to play with Raven and Crow and take reading lessons from his abuelita.

A rancher and his daughter attempt to reconcile 16 years after the girl's mother dies in childbirth. A teenage bride obsessed with sexual fantasies and her distant husband begin to connect when their fellow villagers report the appearance of Christ's face on the church wall. These are just two of the stories in Rudolfa A. Anaya's anthology, which combines folktales with narratives of deep spirituality. 197pp BRODART CO., c2006.

Folklorist Rosa Medina investigates a purported government agency that is cloning monsters--a combination of ChupaCabras and aliens--intended to take over the world.

A poem eulogizing the Mexican American labor activist Cesar Chavez and his work helping organize migrant farm workers.

A fanciful folk tale that helps explain the beautiful flowers that can be seen in all parts of New Mexico in the summer and fall. Escaping Herod's wrath, the Holy Family accepts the offer of the angel Sueǫ to fly them from Bethlehem to Egypt. On the way, true to his name, Sueǫ falls asleep and brings them to New Mexico instead. Safe from Herod, Jesus and his parents live peacefully and happily for a time with the Native peoples of the land. When...

While award-winning author Rudolfo Anaya is known primarily as a novelist, his genius is also evident in dramatic works performed regularly in his native New Mexico and throughout the world. Billy the Kid and Other Plays collects seven of these works and offers them together for the first time. Like his novels, many of Anaya's plays are built from the folklore of the Southwest. This volume opens with The Season of La Llorona, in which Anaya fuses...

In order to marry Sage, the girl he loves, Young Eagle must leave his home in New Mexico and undertake a long and perilous journey to the land of the Aztecs to bring back chile seeds for Sage's father. Includes glossary of Spanish terms.