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5) Solar bones
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On All Souls Day, the late Marcus Conway returns home. Solar Bones captures in a single relentless sentence the life and death of this rural Irish engineer, and his place in the globally interconnected 21st century. The book takes in local municipal failures and global financial collapse, the quotidian pleasures of family, ancient history and the latest headlines, the living and the dead. A vital, tender, acerbic, warm, and death-haunted work one...
Publisher
Wownow Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Harriba! It's The Day Of The Dead and Diego, the adorable skeleton lost his party hat, the one given to him as a gift by his dearly departed uncle Antonio! How can Diego celebrate The Day Of The Dead without his adored party hat? Diego turns for help to his best buddy Cupid. The duo teams up for the adventure of a lifetime as they travel the universe and beyond to find clues to the missing hat. Will Diego find his party hat in time for the The Day...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every year Don Pedro and his family make papier-mâché skeletons, or calaveras, for Mexico's Day of the Dead fiesta. From the Angel and Doctor to the Mariachi and Unicornio, there's a special calavera for each letter of the alphabet. Come dance with them!
Includes a glossary of Spanish words and an author's note.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 149
Language
English
Formats
Description
A missing heirloom threatens to ruin a Day of the Dead celebration.
10) Ghost wings
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
While celebrating the Days of the Dead, a young Mexican girl remembers her wonderful grandmother who sang songs, made tortillas, chased monsters away, and loved butterflies.
Author
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
�1998
Language
English
Description
In Digging the Days of the Dead, Juanita Garciagodoy depicts various aspects of the celebration - including Prehispanic and Spanish Catholic traces on its development as well as folk and popular culture versions - and describes its changing place in contemporary Mexico. Garciagodoy examines in detail differences in attitudes toward death in Mexico and the United States. In part because the living do not exclude the dead from their family circle, celebrants...
Author
Publisher
Blackwell Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead poses a serious challenge to the widespread stereotype of the morbid Mexican, unafraid of death, and obsessed with dying. In fact, the Day of the Dead, as shown here, is a powerful affirmation of life and creativity. Beautifully illustrated, this book is essential for anyone interested in Mexican culture, art, and folklore as well as contemporary globalization and identity formation.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Disney Pixar Coco: The Essential Guide is a captivating companion to the new Disney Pixar movie, packed with thrilling stills and character art. Disney Pixar Coco is the celebration of a lifetime, where Miguel, desperate to prove his talent, finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster H?ctor, and together, they set off on an extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"El Día de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, is here--a holiday for celebrating the lives of departed family and friends. Altars are decorated with sugar skulls and marigolds. Tamales and sweets are ready to eat. Soon it will be time for picnics, music, and a costume parade! Come join in these joyful and vibrant festivities that are a tradition in Mexico and throughout Latin America"--Jacket.
"It's Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and children...
18) Day of the Dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The Day of the Dead is a celebration to honor the loved ones who died in the last year, as well as the ancestors who died long ago, that takes place in Mexico each year on November 1st and 2nd.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Latino rock greats Los Lobos, the salsa-rap-reggae-funk Ozomatli and the all-female mariachi band Flor de Toloache lead this musical celebration of this much anticipated and highly celebrated fiesta by people of Mexican heritage everywhere. Taped before a live audience in the "underworld" of The Caverns subterranean amphitheater, ¡Día de los Muertos! is a high-energy offering to celebrate a wonderful, ancient tradition. Plus, in between performances,...
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