The Day It Snowed Tortillas / El d�a que nev� tortilla: Folk Tales Retold by Joe Hayes | 
pickI have a great fondness for all storytellers. I have an Uncle who is a storyteller and I‘ve always loved listening to his stories. Joe Hayes is amazing and arguably the best one in New Mexico. This compilation has both the English and Spanish versions of some of the more popular local folktales. In the back is a brief summary of the history of each tale, and how Hayes adapted the stories into his own versions.
#bookanddinner homemade chicken noodle soup from my mother-in-law since baby Charlotte shared her cold with me and beer cures everything. This chapter is La Llorona. I still legit to this day do not go near the arroyos or river if it‘s even close to dark. That woman freaks me out. 🙅🏽♀️
#booksandbrews
My current read is super dense, even though it‘s written by Douglas Adams, so as a reward, for every 8 pages I read, I get to read one folktale from my childhood favorite. The end goal though is I get through Adams and I can read one of the books I got for Christmas. I‘m thinking Jackaby.
I'm trying to collect all the stories from my childhood. This book has many of them and it's bilingual so an extra bonus! Featured here is La Llorona aka the weeping woman. Her husband left her and she drowned her children in the river and then died. It is said she haunts the arroyos to find more children to drown. It's more of a cautionary tail because so many people play in the arroyos and then flash floods happen and people drown. #diversereads
