David Álvarez's twist on traditional myths from Mesoamerica is about rivalry, jealousy and making amends. What started as a wordless picture book now has text by author David Bowles.
A decade ago, Mexican illustrator David Álvarez took a trip and got the idea for his children's book,Spain — the cities, the culture — reminded him a lot of home. The similarities made him want to research the history of Mexico and Central America before the Spanish conquest.
"I said yes before I actually thought about what that meant," says Bowles."Taking a wordless text and translating it into English means creating the text for the first time in English. You're translating the intent of the author.", Rabbit is the guardian of the moon. Every night she fills it with sap, or"Why should you get every drop? he thought," Bowles writes.
"Darkness and light, that duality of light and shadows. I use it all the time in my work," says Álvarez."It's a difficult thing to do," says Bowles."David has managed to, in the darkness, to keep color alive."Bowles had studied Nahuatl — the language of the Aztecs — and he already had experience with these myths before he was asked to work on this book.
"So it's just a really lovely story about rivalry and jealousy and how you can repair damage that you've done," says Bowles.
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