Launch of the book “Tales of folklore origin” – 2024-08-20 04:48:52 – 2024-08-20 04:52:04 – 2024-08-20 04:53:53

Launch of the book “Tales of folklore origin”

• Providencia Cultural Foundation, Nueva Providencia Avenue 1995, Pedro de Valdivia Metro Station.
• Tuesday, August 20 – 6:30 p.m.

Folk tales have always been with us. They have laid the first foundations for our reading and cultural education, and have nourished an imaginary worldview that transcends generations.

Thinking about this, and particularly designed for lovers of reading mediation, whether they are professionals or not, Cecilia Beuchat, teacher and researcher, presents the book Folk tales: formulaic, wonderful and animal tales. Bases, proposals and selection for reading mediators, from SM publishing house.

In this book, the author has made a selection of works in order to exemplify the types of stories chosen – formulaic, animal, wonderful – and offer them as material for narration and reading. Also, with a didactic intention, Cecilia shares her experience in workshops with children and in countless courses and talks given to mediators throughout the country and abroad.

The purpose of this book is to enrich the mediators’ view of these works, provoke the revision of certain beliefs regarding their value in childhood, expand their repertoire, stimulate the taste for reading and, especially, to enliven imagination and fantasy.

“I wrote this book so that children can listen to or read, specifically, stories of folklore origin, and so that mediators have a broader repertoire. As a mother, grandmother and teacher, I firmly believe in the value and effect that stories have,” says the writer.

The launch will feature the special participation of Manuel Peña Muñoz, professor, writer and specialist in children’s literature.