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32 pp.
| Peachtree |
September, 2004 |
TradeISBN 1-56145-322-6$15.95
(4)
K-3
Jaunty skeletons dance across double-page spreads in a colorful collage of cut-paper flowers and outdoor scenery. The Day of the Dead is not mournful, and Keep shows the well-dressed skeletons eating, playing, and making music. While slight, the rhyming words that appear across the bottom of the page echo the Spanish/English onomatopoeic sounds of the day. An afterword describes the Mexican holiday.