"A beautiful, playful, child-centric approach to language learning--and if it spawns conversations about dialects, so much the better."--Kirkus "This interactive picture book is sure to be a young crowd-pleaser and storytime favorite." --School Library Journal Rubi Fuentes is the daughter and apprentice of a famous Oaxacan woodcarver. Oddly, she met Efrain Broa in Atlanta, GA, during a demonstration of her technique. They fell in love and returned to Oaxaca where she taught her new husband the art of carving. It took two years of patient work to fill these pages with vibrant, wildly imaginative figures of familiar animals.
This is Book 5 in the First Concepts in Mexican Folk Art Series. See all First Concepts in Mexican Folk Art books here.
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Cynthia Weill holds a doctorate in education from Teachers College Columbia University. She is on the board of a foundation -- Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art -- that seeks to promote and preserve the artists and artisanal work of the state. Familia is her fifth book that features the folk art of Oaxaca.
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