Green Was My Forest

by Edna Iturralde, Jessica Ernst Powell (Translator), Mauricio Maggiorini (Illustrator), Eulalia Cornejo (Illustrator), Santiago Gonzalez (Illustrator) Mandel Vilar Press 9/18/2018, paperback SKU: 9781942134602   The Skipping Stone Magazine Honor Award (one of the best multicultural books for children in 2020) Green Was My Forest is an illustrated collection of twelve short stories about each of Ecuador's six remaining Amazon indigenous groups, told from the point-of-view of the indigenous children themselves. In simple, yet beautiful language, the stories explore the culture, customs and ancestral wisdom of the indigenous groups living in the Ecuadorian Amazon, highlighting their collective love, respect and custodianship of the natural world. These stories offer a rare perspective on these indigenous peoples whose culture and way of life are continuously being threatened by outsiders and the forces of modernization. They portray the way of life of the people who live in Ecuadorian Am