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The festival of bones = El festival de las calaveras : the little-bitty book for the day of the dead

Describes the Day of the Dead, or el Día de los Muertos, a holiday celebrated in Mexico from October 31 to November 2.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	San Vicente, Luis (Author)
Other Authors:	Byrd, John William, 1973- (Translator), Byrd, Robert (Translator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Spanish
Published:	El Paso, Texas : Cinco Puntos Press, [2002]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Bilingual early reader.
Subjects:	Día de los Muertos > Juvenile nonfiction. Holidays > Mexico > Juvenile nonfiction. Mexico > Social life and customs > Juvenile nonfiction. Bilingual books > Juvenile nonfiction. Spanish language materials > Bilingual > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Describes the Day of the Dead, or el Día de los Muertos, a holiday celebrated in Mexico from October 31 to November 2.
Item Description:	"Originally published in Mexico as El festival de las calaveras."
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 19 cm
ISBN:	9781941026038 1941026036 0938317679 9780938317678 9781480679061 1480679062 141313422X 9781413134223
Author Notes:	Luis San Vicente is an artist and author based in Mexico City. He has illustrated more than fifty children's books for publishers all around the world, including Mexico, the US, and Spain. His artwork has been exhibited in Cuba, Korea, Slovakia, and many more countries. He has also received numerous international accolades, including two first-place awards in the Catalog of Children's and Youth illustrations by Mexico's National Council for Culture and Arts, selection for the prestigious Ibero-American Illustration Catalog, and the Encouragement Prize from UNESCO's Noma Concours for Picture Books. You can learn more about him at luissanvicenteilustracion.com. John Byrd , writer and editor, is the former president of Cinco Puntos Press. He co-edited Puro Border (Cinco Puntos/Lee & Low Books) and Lone Star Noir (Akashic Books). He also translated the children's book The Festival of Bones/El festival de las calaveras by Luis San Vicente and the novel Out of Their Minds by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite. He is now a Senior Editor at the Aerospace Center at the University of Texas in El Paso.