Cynthia Weill

¡Bienvenido a la familia! Es igual que la suya : padre, madre, hermana, hermano, abuelita, gato. Bueno, pero, hay algo un poco diferente en esta familia. Tal vez sea esa ropa que llevan puesta ... sólo un poco anitcuada. Y los colores! Tan vibrantes y vivos ... Tal vez eso es. Ellos estan tan llenos de vida. Vida-familiar desde un perspectivo del Día de los muertos! "Welcome to the Family! It's just like yours: father, mother, sister, brother,...

A village of mice prepares for Tet, or Vietnamese New Year, as different numbers of mice give gifts, cook food, and celebrate in other traditional ways. Includes an afterword with facts about the holiday.

"Did you know that animals that live in one country don't always talk the same language as animals from somewhere else? Take a rooster, for instance. In English-speaking countries, he says cock-a-doodle-doo when he has a notion to announce himself or to greet the dawn. But in Spanish-speaking countries, he says ki-kiri-ki. Emerging readers will delight in identifying the animals depicted on each new page. And the bilingual text invites parent and...

"Cynthia Weill scores again with an early concept book that bring every kind of job to life, including the work of the dedicated palm weavers of Flavio Gallardo's workshop, whose miniature palm weavings illustrate this playful book, teaching children words for work in two languages. The weavers live in the village of Chigmecatitlán in the Mixteca part of the Mexican state of Puebla. With tremendous skill and patience, the artisans of this region...

Este libro ilustrado para niños presenta el alfabeto usando esculturas de animales talladas de madera y pintadas por la familia Jiménez, descendíentes de Manuel Jiménez de Oaxaca, un fundador de ese tipo de arte folklórico. This illustrated book for children introduces the alphabet, using painted wooden sculptures of animals made by the Jiménez family, descendents of Manuel Jiménez from Oaxaca, one of the founders of this type of folk art....