Mi Familia Calaca / My Skeleton Family

by Weill, Cynthia; Zarate, Jesus Canseco

• ISBN13: 9781935955504
• ISBN10: 1935955500
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-19
• Publisher: Cinco Puntos Pr

Summary

Welcome to the family! It's just like yours: father, mother, sister, brother, abuelita, gato, even a great-great grandmother. Well, but there's something just a little bit different about this particular family. Maybe it's those clothes they wear . . . just a little bit fashion backward. And the colors! So vibrant and . . . lively. Maybe that's what it is. They are just so full of life while looking almost other worldly. Cynthia Weill's latest bilingual book for young readers teaches basic information about relationships, while also celebrating the colorful tradition of Mexico's Day of the Dead. Artist Jesus Canseco de Oaxaco long-limbed sculptures are a playful twist on traditional Mexican iconography of the skeleton that stretches back through the country's art history to José Gualdalupe Posada's engravings and Aztec sculpture. Cynthia Weillholds a doctorate in education from Teachers College Columbia University. She is on the board of the Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art which seeks to promote and preserve the artists and artisanal work of that Mexican state. La Familiais her fifth book featuring the folk art of Oaxaca. Jesus Canseco de Oaxacois a young Oaxacan folk artist whose medium of choice is paper m'ché. In 2008 he won first prize in the Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art completion for young artists.