Upar and the great nut tree
Subtitle: a South American myth
By: retold by Marcia Vaughan ; illustrated by Susan Gaber
Contributors: Gaber, Susan, illustrator
Series: Developmental reading assessment Level 80
Publisher: Pearson/Celebration Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
ISBN-13: 9780765274595
Subjects: Brothers and sisters; Juvenile fiction; Brazilian Mythology; Readers (Primary)
Description: Two brothers and a sister live in the Amazon Jungle until the sister gets married. Her wedding enrages her brothers who banish her. When she has a son, the sister comes back to see the great nut tree and faces the brothers' wrath. From an old Amazon myth.
Notes: Grades K-3.