Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia
Family Pictures es la historia de la infancia de Carmen Lomas Garza: celebrando cumpleaños, haciendo tamales, encontrando un tiburón martillo en la playa, recogiendo cactus, yendo a una feria en México y confiando a su hermana sus sueños de convertirse en artista. Estas experiencias cotidianas se cuentan a través de catorce viñetas de arte y una narrativa descriptiva, cada una centrada en un aspecto diferente de la cultura tradicional mexicano-estadounidense.
Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza's childhood: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, finding a hammerhead shark on the beach, picking cacti, going to a fair in Mexico, and entrusting her sister with her dreams of becoming an artist. These everyday experiences are told through fourteen art vignettes and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of traditional Mexican-American culture.
Author: Carmen Lomas Garza
Illustrator: Sandra Cisneros
Reading Grade Level: 3rd
Type of Book: Picture
Type of Spanish Book: Bilingual
Fiction or Nonfiction: Nonfiction
Cover: Soft Cover
Year Published: 2013
Comprehensive Read Aloud Grade: 3rd
Comprehensive Read Aloud Collection: 4 - Recordando el Pasado
Size: 1
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