Amelia Lau Carling
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Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Lau family travels to Antigua, Guatemala, to visit their cousins during the Holy Week of Easter. Although the Laus are Chinese and Buddhist, they enjoy the processions walking through the city. They also enjoy the elaborate carpets made of colored sawdust that line the streets, but the heroine doesn't understand why the carpets are made, only to be destroyed.
Sumario en español: Han invitado a la familia Lau a pasar la Semana Santa con los primos...
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Español
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En este encantador libro-álbum, un ratoncito, Chico Canta, salva a su familia del pequeño pero astuto Gato-Gatito, gracias a su agilidad mental y su conocimiento de otro idioma. Chico Canta, el menor de doce hermanos, es un ratoncito travieso y temerario que vive con su familia en un viejo teatro. A todos les encanta subir al palco. Desde allí miran los espectáculos y luego gritan, "¡Bravo, bravo!" con el público, cuando cae el telón. La señora...
5) Abuelos
Author
Publisher
Groundwood
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Young Ray and Amelia move to a new village and experience the fright and fun of los abuelos for the first time. The tradition of "los abuelos" comes from northern New Mexico.
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Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Multiple
Description
""A collection of poetry by ... [Mayan poet Humberto Ak'abal] about the vanished world of his childhood ... [The poems] evoke his childhood in and around the Maya K'iche' village of Momostenango, Guatemala, and also describe his own role as a poet of the place. Ak'abal writes about children, and grandfathers, and mothers, and animals, and ghosts, and thwarted love, and fields, and rains, and poverty, and death"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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A collection of poetry by one of the greatest Indigenous poets of the Americas about the vanished world of his childhood - that of the Maya K'iche'.
Aquí era el paraíso / Here Was Paradise is a selection of poems written by the great Maya poet Humberto Ak'abal. They evoke his childhood in and around the Maya K'iche' village of Momostenango, Guatemala, and also describe his own role as a poet of the place.
Ak'abal writes about children, and grandfathers,...