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Blancaflor and all the sh*t wives have to do

Blancaflor, The Hero with Secret Powers: ​A Folktale from Latin America by Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio García Sánchez

September 15, 2023 by cosbrarian 1 Comment

Blancaflor is a folktale with Spanish and Latin American roots from a category of folktales called “Girl helps the hero flee.”  High John the Conqueror is an African-American version you may have read in Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly. In this type of folktale, a man ends up being captured by a devil or magician, and has to complete a series of impossible tasks. But the devil/magician’s daughter falls for the hero, and helps him complete the tasks and escape with his life. TOON […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: blancaflor, children's book, Fairy Tales, feminism, folktales, graphic novels, Latin America, Nadja Spiegelman, Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio García Sánchez, Sergio Garcia Sanchez, toon books

cosbrarian's CBR15 Review No:9 · Genres: Children's Books, Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: blancaflor, children's book, Fairy Tales, feminism, folktales, graphic novels, Latin America, Nadja Spiegelman, Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio García Sánchez, Sergio Garcia Sanchez, toon books ·
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And what little girls are made of

Blancaflor, the Hero with Secret Powers: A Folktale from Latin America: A Toon Graphic by Nadja Spiegelman

January 25, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While focusing on one story in Blancaflor, the Hero with Secret Powers: A Folktale from Latin America: A Toon Graphic you will see multiple stories come together due to the collective ideals of storytelling around the world. This version of Blancaflor by Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio Garcia Sanchez highlights the Latin influences of this wonderfully illustrated story of women’s strengths and hidden talents which we see unfolding to save the prince/her love. The story is simple, Blancaflor is the daughter of ogres. Her father gave […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: Caribbean & Latin American, Fairy Tales, folklore, Legends & Mythology, Nadja Spiegelman, Princes, princesses, Self-acceptance, Sergio Garcia Sanchez

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: Caribbean & Latin American, Fairy Tales, folklore, Legends & Mythology, Nadja Spiegelman, Princes, princesses, Self-acceptance, Sergio Garcia Sanchez ·
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A very unusual memoir

September 27, 2016 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

Nadja Spiegelman, daughter of Maus creator Art Spiegelman and New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly, wrote this memoir that’s less about her own life, and more about how her life weaves into her mother’s and grandmother’s and great-grandmother’s — and how secret and lies and tricks of memory can affect these relationships. “I saw a pattern forming, like a series of skipping stones that sent ripples through the generations: all the granddaughters and grandmothers who loved each other, all the mothers left stranded in between.” Nadja’s […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Nadja Spiegelman

badkittyuno's CBR8 Review No:197 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Nadja Spiegelman ·
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