BUMBA-MEU-BOI

Stela Barbieri
Illustration by Fernando Vilela
Publisher: Editora Girafinha, 2007
Size 20,5 x 20,5cm
Paperback: 48 pages
ISBN 9788599520437

There are many different versions to bumba-meu-boi, the folk ox party. The bumba-meu- boi is a Brazilian popular party in which indigenous and afro-brazilian culture dialogue and it takes place in many regions of the country. However, Stela Barbieri and Fernando Vilela retell a different version to children’s public, inspired in the regional version from Maranhão State “The Ox has black skin full of colored outfits”. And the entertaining story enchants everyone in St. John’s Folk Party.r.