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Author
Series
Cece Rios volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Cece Rios and her friends have escaped Devil’s Alley, but the fight to save their world is just beginning. Despite her growing comfort with her curandera abilities, Cece is worried that she won’t be strong enough to stop her most dangerous enemy yet: her tía, Catrina. Desperate for power and revenge, Catrina has seized the throne of Devil’s Alley and set her sights on the living world. Catrina’s first move is a brutal attack on the Sun Sanctuary...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Guided by a blue hummingbird, Jade brings an offering to the Mountain Spirit who lives near her village in Mexico, and asks if he will send rain to end the drought that threatens the people. Includes information about the legend on which this story is based and facts about corn.
6) Cactus soup
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
During the Mexican Revolution, when a troop of hungry soldiers comes to a town where all the food has been hidden, they charm the townspeople into helping make a soup from water and a cactus thorn.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Retells, in parallel English and Spanish text, the traditional Hispanic American tale of a proud and beautiful woman who, in a fit of jealousy, commits a terrible act and then cannot stop weeping for it, even after she is dead.
Author
Publisher
B Artes De México
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
La primera piñata que se rompió en una posada era muy parecida a la estrella de Navidad. En estas páginas ilustradas para niños se puede descubrir el legendario origen de una importante tradición mexicana.
The traditional Mexican legend about the first pinata which was shaped like the star of Bethlehem.
Author
Publisher
Exile Editions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Perplexing and absorbing, these stories lift the veil of reality to expose the realms of what lies beyond with creatures that shed their skin and roam the night, vampires in Mexico City that struggle with disenchantment, an apocalypse with giant penguins, legends of magic scorpions, and tales of a ceiba tree surrounded by human skulls.
14) Miguel's music
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Miguel loves music, but his family says it is not allowed. Will he ever change their minds?
Publisher
En Pantalla Producciones
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Leo San Juan y sus compañeros de aventura logran dar con La Llorona y hacen hasta lo imposible por vencerla. Sin embargo, todos sus esfuerzos no sólo resultan inútiles, sino que ellos mismos terminan sufriendo la maldición de La Llorona. Pasan de ser cazadores a ser la presa del cazador.
Leo San Juan and his fellow adventurers manage meet up with La Llorona and do almost the impossible in order to overcome her. However, not only do all their...
Publisher
Lourdes Portillo
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
A first and thorough look at the Mexican celebration of the dead, the sacred days when the souls of the departed return to visit the living. Tracing the Days of the Dead tradition from its roots in Indian culture to its manifestations in contemporary Chicano communities, this unconventional and visually arresting documentary contemplates the loving and sometimes humorous Mexican cultural attitudes toward "that constant companion," death.
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