The Secret Footprints

The Secret Footprints

The Secret Footprints

The Secret Footprints

Paperback(Reprint)

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Overview

The Dominican legend of the ciguapas, creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backward so that humans couldn't follow their footprints, is reinvented by renowned author Julia Alvarez. Although the ciguapas fear humans, Guapa, a bold and brave ciguapa, can't help but be curious—especially about a boy she sees on the nights when she goes on the land to hunt for food. When she gets too close to his family and is discovered, she learns that some humans are kind. Even though she escapes unharmed and promises never to get too close to a human again, Guapa still sneaks over to the boy's house some evenings, where she finds a warm pastelito in the pocket of his jacket on the clothesline.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780440417477
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication date: 09/10/2002
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 40
Sales rank: 505,210
Product dimensions: 8.60(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.14(d)
Age Range: 3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Julia Alvarez is the award-winning author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and íYo!
Fabian Negrin has illustrated Dora's Box and The Selfish Giant for Knopf.

Hometown:

Middlebury, Vermont

Date of Birth:

March 27, 1950

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., Middlebury College, 1971; M.F.A., Syracuse University, 1975
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