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As a looked in my school library in which I teach I found numerous selections to choose from but didn’t find many Mexican folktales. I then searched on a database that my school librarian uses here at school to research and purchase books called Titlewave. As I was searching on this database I came across a couple of more selections that led me to research them a little more to find out about the author and origin of the stories and began looking on the Scholastic and Amazon for more information. I then remembered that I had a book bin that has a few books on Mexican folktales and found the story Borreguita and the Coyote in my collection of books. This book was a good fit for my audience and led me to research a little more to check for cultural

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