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Lomas Garza, Carmen
2 Reviews
(3)
K-3
This loving look at the author's childhood in a traditional Mexican American community in southern Texas bursts with life, with scenes including a community fundraising cakewalk, a quinceañera celebration, and a Christmas Los Posadas procession. This splendid fifteenth-anniversary edition has a larger trim size and a new layout, as well as an introduction by Sandra Cisneros and an afterword by Pat Mora.
Reviewer: Terri Schmitz
(4)
K-3
Translated by Francisco X. Alarcon.
As told to Harriet Rohmer. In a bilingual text, an artist explores her Mexican heritage by describing various subjects in her papel picado, cut-paper art. Appropriately enough, the Spanish translation contains some word choices that are colloquial only to Mexico, but the translated text is choppy at times, and a paragraph is missing on one page. Nevertheless, the book provides a unique, personal perspective.
Reviewer: Claire M. Dignan
2 reviews
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