Fabulas Y Verdades

by Rafael Pombo

This Book Is In Spanish.

262 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1916

About the author

José Rafael de Pombo y Rebolledo was a Colombian poet. Trained as a mathematician and an engineer in a military school, Rafael Pombo served in the army and he traveled to the United States of America as Secretary of the Legation in Washington. After the termination of this diplomatic position, he was hired by D. Appleton & Company in New York to translate into Spanish nursery rhymes from the Anglo-Saxon oral tradition. The product of this work, more than a translation, was a transformative adaptation published in two books under the titles Cuentos pintados para niños and Cuentos morales para niños formales.

In spite of his extensive and diverse literary works, Rafael Pombo is mostly remembered for this contribution to children's literature. Among his most popular children's fables are Michín, Juan Chunguero, Pastorcita, La Pobre Viejecita, Simón el Bobito, El Gato Bandido, and El Renacuajo paseador.

On August 20, 1905 he was crowned as Colombia's best poet - his Poesías Completas was published in 1957, from which the poem En El Niágara was taken. Rafael Pombo remained in Colombia until his death on May 5, 1912.

Reviews

[Ivonne]

It is a book too easy to read, many can start reading with this book. These poems are well known, they are not corny stories, nor are they obligatory stories for children, they can read anytime they want.

[Carlos]

Hermosos versos que transmiten dudosos valores