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.
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Edna Iturralde (1948--) the author, has won multiple national and international awards. She is considered the most important figure in children and young adult's literature of her country and, with nearly sixty published books, she has attained significant international recognition. She is a 2014 International Latino Book Awards Finalist, and her collection of short stories, Green Was My Forest, was selected as one of the ten best children’s books written in Latin America during the 20th Century. In the United States, four of her books were chosen to be part of the Common Core kits in the schools in Los Angeles, California and Houston Texas. The Texas Library Association selected two of her bi-lingual books for its 2016-17 list of ten recommended bi-lingual books. Two of her books are part of the Required Summer Reading Books recommended by Scholastic Books. Three of her books have won the Skipping Stones International Book Prize, and five of her books won the International Latino Book Award. In Mexico, three of her books were also chosen, in different years, by the SEP, the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education, to be part of all the school libraries in that country.This book, Green Was My Forest is the prize winner: Skipping Stones Honor Award for United States 2002 ethnic and intercultural diversity. (Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner for ethnic and intercultural diversity in the United States 2002).
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