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Synopsis
These Twelve fictional stories explore the way of life, culture, customs, and ancestral wisdom of indigenous groups living in Ecuador's Equatorial Amazon told from the point-of-view of the indigenous children themselves. These stories highlight their collective love, respect and custodianship of the natural world. Recommended for children nine years and up, the stories in Green Was my Forest both entertain and educate the reader, offering a rare perspective on these indigenous Ecuadorian peoples whose culture and way of life are continuously being threatened by outsiders and the forces of capitalism and modernization. This book has been described as the Ecuadorean equivalent of the Welsh classic How Green Was my Valley. These twelve stories portray the way of life of the people who live in the East part of Ecuador known for its forest, exotic animals, and indigenous towns. These stories were created by Edna Iturralde's imagination based on facts after traveling to the East and meeting the people who inhabit it. She studied their way of life, observed and felt their culture, understood them and was able to write these vibrant tales while being faithful to those people and their world.