¡El Cucuy! : A Bogeyman Cuento in English and Spanish (English and Spanish Edition)

So youve been mouthing off to your parents a bit lately not listening when they tell you to put your dirty socks in the hamper? They tell you that if you dont shape up they are going to call the bogeyman to come and get you. You laugh. There is no such thing as a bogeyman. A sharp knock comes at the door. Nobody is around so you answer. Standing at the door is the oldest man you have ever seenhis back is hunched and one of his ears is big and red. He grabs for your arm and you know now that the bogeyman is for real. This particular bogeyman is called el Cucuy (pronounced coo-COO-ee). He comes directly from Mexico. They say with that big red ear that he can hear everything! In this cautionary tale master storyteller Joe Hayes tells how two girls didnt listen to their fathers warningsjust like youand el Cucuy snatched them up. Of course the story has a happy ending! Todos en el suroeste de los Estados Unidos y la gran parte de Mxico han escuchado del Cucuy. Con su espalda jorobada y su gran oreja roja el Cucuy fue una vez una parte estndar de la crianza de los nios. Muchos mexicanos y mexicoamericanos te dirn: "Crec con el Cucuy". "Y hay muchas historias de nios perezosos y desobedientes que sus pies fueron puestos en el camino recto y estrecho por un encuentro con este ogro. Aunque los padres de hoy ya no piensan que es apropiado confiar en las amenazas de llamar a el Cucuy para que venga y se lleve a sus hijos los jvenes an se deleitan en historias de nios y nias malos que son mucho peores que ellos recibiendo el buen susto que se merecen de El Cucuy. Por supuesto los mejores cuentos como este siempre tienen un final feliz. Joe Hayes has become one of Americas premier storytellers traveling around the country to schools universities and professional conferences to tell stories from the Southwest. His bilingual Spanish-English tellings have earned him a distinctive place among Americas storytellers. Hayes lives in Santa Fe New Mexico. Illustrator Honorio Robledo grew up in a small village in southwestern Mexico. His art is influenced by the Surrealists but also by the native painters of Veracruz that express through color all the riches of the region. Robledo lives in Los Angeles California.