Book jacket image for Ancient Night by David Alvarez

Levine Querido

9781646142514

STARRED REVIEW

Ancient Night

This wondrous, sparkling story conveys how Rabbit and Opossum became “Guardians of Light,” providing the moon with its glow and the sun its fire.

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Review of ‘Ancient Night’

This exquisite etiological story, originally published in a wordless format by David Álvarez in Mexico in 2017, blends multiple Mesoamerican tales to tell a story of how the sun came to be. 

"At the start of things, the elders say," begins award-winning author David Bowles’ text, which was composed for this edition, "the universe was…

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