The Jungle Mireia Pérez A feminist fairy-tale

A feminist fairy-tale

living the life she’d built in the US and desperate for relief

A beautiful concertina book that can be read as a book

It's a summer of secrets

The Jungle Mireia Pérez A feminist fairy-taleBy Helen Borten. Published by Enchanted Lion Books. Hardcover, 40 pages, Colour, 2018 (originally published 1968) A 2018 CBC Hot Off the Press selection "With beautiful, clear language, Helen Borten takes children through a single day deep within the Guatemalan rain forest in a reissue of her 1968 picture book, The Jungle Matte paper whispers under the fingers as the pages turn to show layered prints and etchings of monkeys and ferns; of the armadillo