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Description
Another fun original tale that uses the backdrop of a Guatemala
village to tell a story with a message. A baker named Beto befriends a beggar who has blue eyes.
The villagers decide they don’t want beggars around during the
village’s fiesta and force the beggar to leave.
As Beto listens to the beggars sad tale, a bitter tear falls into
the bread batter. Subsequently
the bread will not rise and the Village must face a fiesta without bread.
Beto, through a dream, is lead to the beggar who helps him solve
the mystery and saves the fiesta.
Ages:
5 -9
Keywords:
Guatemala, Juvenile fiction, Tales
of village life
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³The
Sleeping Bread,
Stefan Czernecki and Timothy Rhode; Hyperion, New York, NY, 40 pp (1992)
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