Description
Award-winning author-illustrator Carmen Lomas Garza shares still-life paintings of her childhood near the Texas-Mexico border in this book. Her paintings show moments–a fair in Reynosa, picking nopal cactus, a quinceatilde;eara/em, and more. Each painting includes a short explanation of the scene in English and Spanish.Note:/ This book contains some images that may not be appropriate for all ages, including depictions of killing a chicken for food (violence), a dead shark (blood), and a rabbit processed for food (blood).Copyright 2005. English, Spanish. All levels. Elementary, middle school. 11 x 9 inches. Softcover, 32 pages.
