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Pura Belpre Books, Del Sol BooksAuthor : Carmen Lomas Garza, Illustrator : Carmen Lomas Garza
Preschool - 2nd Grade

Cuadros de familia - Family Pictures

Cuadros de familia - Family Pictures, Softcover, Bilingual, Book, Carmen Lomas Garza, Carmen Lomas Garza, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9780892392070, $7.95  Out of Print  :(
Cuadros de familia - Family Pictures, Hardcover, Bilingual, Book, Carmen Lomas Garza, Carmen Lomas Garza,
Preschool - 2nd Grade , 9780892392063, $16.95  Out of Print  :(

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Cuadros de familia - Family Pictures, Del Sol BooksPura Belpre Award Honor Book in 1996 for Illustration
School Library Journal "Best Books of the Year" Selection
American Library Association Notable Book
Library of Congress "Best Books of the Year" Selection
Recommended by the Elementary School Library Collection
Parent's Choice Noteworthy Book

"The pictures in this book are painted from my memories of growing up in Kingsville, Texas, near the border with Mexico . . . This is my book of family pictures." —Carmen Lomas Garza

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

The Spanish-English text and vivid illustrations reflect the author's strong sense of family and community and demonstrate how her mother's love and hard work helped Carmen achieve her dream. For the hundreds of thousands of Mexican Americans, Carmen Lomas Garza offers a book that reflects their lives and cultural traditions. For other, this beautiful work will offer insights into a fascinating life and a rich community.

For over a decade the images and stories in Family Pictures have sparked the imaginations of children and adults alike. To honor and celebrate the impact this book has had on children, their families, teachers, and librarians, Children’s Book press is proud to release Family Pictures: 15th Anniversary Edition/Cuadros de Familia: Edición Quinceañera

This stunning new edition includes:
An introduction by literary luminary Sandra Cisneros
A new painting and accompanying narrative text
Completely new design and layout
Larger trim size (9 1/2" x 11 1/2")
An afterword by children’s author and education advocate Pat Mora

Carmen Lomas Garza is one of the foremost Mexican American painters. Her books published by Children's Book Press, including "Family Pictures / Cuadros de familia"; "In My Family / En mi familia"; "Magic Windows / Ventanas mágicas" and "Making Magic Windows: Creating Papel Picado / Cut-Paper Art with Carmen Lomas Garza," gained wide recognition for accurately and lovingly portraying the Mexican American community. The awards Carmen Lomas Garza has received for these books include the 2000 Pura Belpré Award from the American Library Association; the 1996 Américas Award; the 1996 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award; and inclusion on the 1998 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List Selection.

Ms. Lomas' work, including her paintings and papel picado (cut-paper art), is exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and a Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. She lives in San Francisco, California.

Vienna RoseListen to Vienna Rose read Family Pictures to you.  A marvelous example of the magical encounter between a child and books that we wish for all children.

"..this reissue is a must for schools and libraries that want to celebrate this gem's 15-year anniversary along with its author." —CRITICAS

Publishers Weekly : Today, with her family's continuous support, courage and dedication, Carmen Garza's hopes for a brilliant future as an artist have become a reality. In gratitude to those who helped her achieve this goal, Mexican-American Garza has generously afforded readers a glimpse of her cherished childhood in a poor rural Hispanic community. Her daily activities and fond memories are related in paintings that celebrate birthdays, making tamales and finding a hammerhead shark on the beach. The vibrant, canvaslike illustrations, accentuated with "papel picado"--images on the text pages--evoke powerful feelings of Garza's love for family and community despite the hardships she encountered while growing up. Readers of various ethnic origins should use this exemplary bilingual book as a litmus test for exploring diversities of multicultural lifestyles; Family Pictures will shed some much-needed light on society's cultural barriers. Ages 6-12.

School Library Journal : Grade 1-4-- An inspired celebration of American cultural diversity in English and Spanish. Lomas Garza presents a charming series of paintings while relating remembrances of her childhood in Kingsville, Texas, near the Mexican border. The brilliantly colored images teem with life and exude the glow of nostalgia. Lomas Garza's vignettes are similar in their primitive folk style to those of Grandma Moses. Whether it's the family eating watermelon on the porch, Grandfather taking a skinned rabbit into the kitchen for dinner, or a dead hammerhead shark on the beach, each moment is fully captured in all its freshness and immediacy. The English text is simple and reads smoothly, but it is Zubizarreta's Spanish rendition that has real verve and style. From the exquisite cut-paper images on the text pages, to the brilliant paintings, to the strong family bonds expressed in the text, Family Pictures/Cuadros de familia is a visual feast, and an aural delight. --Ann Welton, University Child Development School, Seattle
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Parents Choice : This is the illustrator and storyteller's bilingual memoir of growing up in Texas, fully immersed in her family's Mexican traditions. The illustrations are painted in a flat, naïve style, bringing out the details of celebrations and everyday activities from cakewalk scholarship fundraisers to visits from the curandera to eating watermelon on the porch on a hot summer evening. There is always a mix of ages and generations, emphasizing activities all members of a family enjoy in their own ways. Lomas Garza explains the paintings, supplying additional information, making this book an introduction to the artistic process as well as a family history.

"..this reissue is a must for schools and libraries that want to celebrate this gem's 15-year anniversary along with its author."     
 —CRITICAS

"A beautiful book distinguished by the clean, crisp style and bright, harmonious colors of its art."
     —Kirkus Reviews

"An honest portrayal of a culture rarely seen in children's books, and every page offers a lot to look at."
     —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"Look again, and again, and again—for the haphazard detail of these loving snapshots emerges slowly, and is worth searching for."
     —Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Family Pictures is a must for any upper-elementary study of Mexican American culture and a wonderful addition to theme studies of home, family, or community in the primary grades."
     —The Reading Teacher

"This book is refreshing and uplifting, an inspiration to readers about the true meaning of caring for others …the book deserves a wide audience."
      —MultiCultural Review


Bilingual Collection Red Books :
Amigos del otro lado - Friends from the Other SideAnimal Poems of the IguazuCumpleanos en el barrio - Birthday in the BarrioDel Norte al Sur - From North to South, Del Sol BooksDel ombligo de la luna - From the Bellybutton of the MoonDesplumado - FeatherlessEl canto de las palomas - Calling the DovesEl vecindario de Quinito - Quinitos NeighborhoodEn mi familia - In My FamilyLa mujer que brillaba aun mas que el sol - The Woman who Outshone the SunLa tarjeta de Antonio - Antonios CardLa visita del Sr Azucar - Mr Sugar Came to TownLos meros meros remateros - Grandma and Me at the FleaLos perros magicos de los volcanes - Magic Dogs of the VolcanoesMi diario de aqui hasta alla - My Diary from Here to ThereMi papa Diego y yo - My Papa Diego and MeMi propio cuartito - My Very Own RoomMis colores mi mundo - My Colors My WorldQuinito dia y noche - Quinito Day and NightTomates risuenos - Laughing Tomatoes


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