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.
English Description:
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
Type of Spanish : Bilingual
Reading Grade Level: 3rd
Genre: Non-Fiction
Sub-Genre: Biography, Non-Fiction
Theme: Culture
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