LA Llorona the Weeping Woman
Joe Hayes retells the Mexican folk tale of La Llorona, the weeping woman who drowned her children after her husband left her and now wanders water at night searching for them. Hayes is a New Mexico storyteller and the book is published bilingually, Spanish and English on facing pages. At thirty-two pages it is a picture book, though the story itself is genuinely frightening and is traditionally told as a warning to children near rivers.