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NINA JAFFE is an award-winning author, folklorist and storyteller formerly on the faculty of the Graduate School at Bank Street College of Education. Her acclaimed retellings of world folklore include: The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella tale from the Jewish Tradition and Patakín: World Tales of Drums and Drummers. Cited in Best Books for Children (HarperCollins) as “among the very best in the field” of authors who draw on folklore and oral traditions, Nina has represented the United States at the International Festival of Storytelling in the Canary Islands, Spain and served as project director of FEAST: Folklore Education and Storytelling for Teachers -- a professional development project at the Graduate School. Recent publications include a Spanish-language edition of The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico (Arte Publico) and the inaugural DC Comics Wonder Woman books for young readers (Harper Collins). She lives in New York City with her family.
Nina Jaffe es una autora galardonada, folklorista y narradora que era miembro de la facultad de la escuela graduada de Bank Street College of Education. Entre sus obras destacadas de folklor se encuentran: La flor de oro: Un mito taíno de Puerto Rico (con ilustraciones de Enrique O. Sanchéz) y Patakín: World Tales of Drums and Drummers. Ha representado a los Estados Unidos en El Festival Internacional de Cuentos en Tenerife, España y vive en la ciudad de Nueva York con su familia.