{"id":315503,"date":"2025-11-24T11:48:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/three-kings-of-puerto-rican-childrens-literature\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:48:54","slug":"three-kings-of-puerto-rican-childrens-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=315503","title":{"rendered":"Three Kings of Puerto Rican Children\u2019s Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Happy Three Kings Day! While most Americans celebrate Christmas as their major winter holiday, in Puerto Rico, where I was last week, Christmas extends from (as one person there told me) Thanksgiving night when they put up the tree to the San Sebast\u00edan Festival in Old San Juan during the third week in January.\u00a0 One highlight is today, El D\u00eda de los Tres Reyes Magos.\u00a0 Everywhere we went in Puerto Rico there were signs and statues and light displays marking today\u2019s festival, which was at one time the traditional gift-giving day of the holiday season.<\/p>\n

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One of several books available at Libreria Laberinto for Three Kings Day; as you can tell from the glare on the photo, it was wrapped in plastic like many of the children\u2019s books and therefore could not be browsed through in the store.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Now, as always, influence from the mainland and larger powers have had an effect on how Puerto Ricans celebrate, and Christmas has gained prominence accordingly.\u00a0 Outside influence is, of course, historically the norm for Caribbean islands.\u00a0 And like the three kings who came from other lands to bring their gifts, exploring imperial powers have changed\u2014and continue to change\u2014all aspects of Puerto Rican life.\u00a0 This includes children\u2019s books. While I was pleased, especially after my forays to bookstores in former British colonial islands, to see a wide variety of specifically Puerto Rican children\u2019s literature available, they were dominated by three elements: the history of the island, language issues, and the value (in all sorts of ways) placed on reading.<\/p>\n

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The folktale section was dominated by Juan Bobo tales. This is only a small part of the wall of books by and about Puerto Rico for children available at the bookstore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As with many attempts at creating a national children\u2019s literature, a great deal of attention is paid to the history (both factual and folkloric) of the island in its children\u2019s literature.\u00a0 At Librer\u00eda Laberinto, a well-stocked bookstore at the heart of Old San Juan, they had a whole wall of children\u2019s books from and about Puerto Rico.\u00a0 Many of these are folktales.\u00a0 Prominent among the stories were Juan Bobo tales; Juan Bobo is an apparently foolish character in Puerto Rican folklore who yet often succeeds against ridiculous odds.\u00a0 Like Brer Rabbit, Juan Bobo has been discussed as a trickster character who wins out over the greater power\u2014in Brer Rabbit\u2019s case, the tales are often seen as an allegory of slavery, and in Juan Bobo\u2019s, an allegory of colonialism with the Puerto Rican succeeding over the Spanish colonizer. Sharing the shelves with the Juan Bobo tales were Ta\u00edno folktales, stories from the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the island.\u00a0 The Ta\u00edno were almost entirely wiped out in Puerto Rico by Columbus and the Spanish, but today they have gained a revered status.\u00a0 As Ivonne Figueroa has pointed out, \u201cMuch has been said of the Ta\u00ednos lately, but it wasn\u2019t until the early 1900\u2019s that the study of the Ta\u00ednos took off\u201d (http:\/\/www.elboricua.com\/history.html<\/a>).\u00a0 This time period accords with both movements for Puerto Rican independence (from both the Spanish and the Americans) and with the international rise in the study of anthropology and folklore, which often manifested as a search for the noble primitive, an antidote to an increasingly industrialized world.\u00a0 Renewed interest in folklore emphasizes this rejection of the globalized world of technology.<\/p>\n

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European architectural styles and buildings dominate the counting book, Los Numeros en Ponce in Numbers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But the power of colonialism is also present in Puerto Rican children\u2019s books.\u00a0 One of the books I brought back, Yvonne Sanavitis and Karen Dietrich\u2019s Los N\u00fameros en Ponce in Numbers<\/em> (Plaza Mayor 2009) is a counting book that tells the history of the city of Ponce in Puerto Rico.\u00a0 Most of the sights associated with the different numbers are connected to la Plaza de las Delicias, the main town square built by the early Spanish settlers in the 1670s, including the Fuente del L\u00e9on (Lion Fountain), City Hall, the fire station, and the Armstrong-Poventud house.\u00a0 These buildings and monuments are all displayed in their European-style decoration, and a brief description of the Spanish colonizers who created them and held sway over them is given.\u00a0 The Ta\u00ednos, on the other hand, are not mentioned until the last number of the book.\u00a0 The page describing 100 shows an isolated path of stones outside the center of the city.\u00a0 The text reads, \u201cFloods caused by a hurricane washed away layers of earth in the Tibes neighborhood of Ponce and revealed an indigenous Ta\u00edno ceremonial site.\u00a0 Tibes excavations have provided important information about ceremonies, eating habits, ceramics and construction of homes of the indigenous population of Puerto Rico\u201d (51).\u00a0 It is difficult to see, looking at the illustration, how any of this information could have come from the pile of rocks; additionally, the book says nothing of the people living in the neighborhood at the time of the floods or what happened to them.\u00a0 The focus is on the people with the power to shape history; the book opens with a quotation from educator Rafael Pont Flores stating, \u201cPonce no longer repeats its history, it makes it better\u201d (5).<\/p>\n

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The Tainos are only represented in Los Numeros en Ponce in Numbers by the number 100; the illustration shows an unreadable pile of rocks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Los N\u00fameros en Ponce in Numbers<\/em> also highlights another trend I found in the children\u2019s books in Librer\u00eda Laberinto, a focus on language.\u00a0 Many of the books available came in dual editions or dual languages, showing the tension between English and Spanish on the island.\u00a0 Spanish is, of course, the native language of most Puerto Ricans, but\u2014especially in tourist areas like San Juan and Ponce\u2014English is increasingly necessary at all levels of the economy.\u00a0 In 2012, the island instituted a pilot program to shift instruction in Puerto Rico\u2019s schools from Spanish to English (https:\/\/www.caliricans.com\/2012\/08\/english-to-replace-spanish-in-puerto-rico-schools\/<\/a>).\u00a0 But it is a fraught issue that mirrors the tensions between the island and the mainland United States.<\/p>\n

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This board book highlights words specific to Puerto Rican culture\u2013perhaps it should be labeled trilingual instead of bilingual.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Perhaps the concerns about language come to a head in Palabras Boricuas\/Puerto Rican Words<\/em> (2016), a bilingual\u2014or perhaps trilingual\u2014board book by Hector E. Baez.\u00a0 Right on the front cover, along with the title and the Puerto Rican flag, is the sentence, \u201cNo decimos Banana . . . decimos Guineo.\u201d\u00a0 Translated into English, this says, \u201cWe don\u2019t say banana . . . we say banana.\u201d\u00a0 This epitomizes for me the struggles over language found in books specifically for Puerto Rican children.<\/p>\n

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The Thiago series focuses on issues and concepts important to Puerto Ricans\u2013but because publishing on an island is expensive, even short books like this are costly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But how many children have access to these books is something I would be interested to know.\u00a0 As I said, Librer\u00eda Laberinto had an excellent selection of books, showing how much specifically Puerto Rican children\u2019s literature is valued.\u00a0 But these books were also incredibly expensive compared to their translated counterparts.\u00a0 Most were produced by the educational arm of the University of Puerto Rico or the Instituto de Cultura Puertorique\u00f1a.\u00a0 Again, this shows that children\u2019s literature is of cultural value, but the cost of publishing books on a small island means that most picture books are hard cover only (many of them in the bookstore were sealed in plastic, and therefore unbrowsable).\u00a0 The books designed for beginning chapter book readers, such as the Thiago<\/em> series by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro and published by EDP University of Puerto Rico, can cost ten dollars for a twenty-six page paperback book.\u00a0 These prices mean that many children will only encounter books in libraries or schools, rather than being able to have shelves of books in their homes.\u00a0 This is true in other places as well, of course.\u00a0 But Puerto Rico\u2019s past and present shape the audience for their specifically Puerto Rican children\u2019s books\u2014leaving the treasures of reading out of reach for many.<\/p>\n

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