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Books del Sur curates Latin America Spanish-language literature to support dual language curriculum.
Books del Sur curates Latin America Spanish-language literature to support dual language curriculum.
Book cover of Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia with an illustration of a family eating and cooking together.

Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia

by Books del Sur
$10.95 - $10.95
$10.95
$10.95 - $10.95
$10.95

Family Pictures es la historia de la infancia de Carmen Lomas Garza: celebrando cumpleaños, haciendo tamales, encontrando un tiburón martillo en la playa, recogiendo cactus, yendo a una feria en México y confiando a su hermana sus sueños de convertirse en artista. Estas experiencias cotidianas se cuentan a través de catorce viñetas de arte y una narrativa descriptiva, cada una centrada en un aspecto diferente de la cultura tradicional mexicano-estadounidense.


 

 

Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza's childhood: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, finding a hammerhead shark on the beach, picking cacti, going to a fair in Mexico, and entrusting her sister with her dreams of becoming an artist. These everyday experiences are told through fourteen art vignettes and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of traditional Mexican-American culture.

Author: 

Carmen Lomas Garza

Illustrator: Sandra Cisneros

Reading Grade Level: 3rd

Type of Spanish Book: Bilingual

Type of Book: Picture

Genre: Non-Fiction

Size: 10

Cover: Soft Cover

Year Published: 2013

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