A story that many generations of kids have heard when they didn't mind parents. The Cucuy is equivalent of a Bogeyman. A creature that parents spoke about to the children when they misbehaved. Joe Hayes tells the story of kids misbehaving and the Cucuy comes to take em away in order to discipline them. This is a story that has been told as a oral story telling to teach lesson and traditions.
This is a good book to introduce folk tales, family traditions, cultural myths, moral lessons and it is a book also written in Spanish and English. ( )

A father and his three daughters lived in the mountain village. The two oldest daughters are constantly misbehaving. They are always making fun of the youngest sister for always working while the father was at work. The father threatened the misbehaving daughters that he will cal the El Cucuy if they did not stop acting up, but they did not believe their father. One day the Cucuy came down from the mountain cave where they lived, and the Cucuy took the daughters away and locked them up in a dark cave. The father could not find them. Than one day a village boy hears their cries and saved them. From that day on the girls behaved. ( )

Kids learn a lesson because "to listen to their parents and help out at their home. And to stick up for their family members. I felt confident when wee read this book. It scared me just a little ( )

Joe Hayes tells about two girls who didn’t believe in el Cucuy until he snatched them up. Of course, the story has a happy ending. ( )