The Farolitos of Christmas
It's Christmas in San Juan, New Mexico, and young Luz worries that with her grandfather sick and her father in the hospital, wounded from the war, their usual Christmas celebration will not be. Then Luz decides to make her own little lanterns, or farolitos, to light the path for the oncoming celebration, and for her father, who returns home in time for the holiday.
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"Richly colored full-page paintings show a lovingly individualized Chicano family that is part of a New Mexico community in the open landscape under the starlit winter sky. Anaya's upbeat story, first published in a magazine in 1987, focuses on Luz, a young girl whose father, wounded in World War II, hasn't come home yet. Her sick grandfather is not strong enough to cut the logs for the traditional luminarias (small bonfires), so Luz and her Indian friend Reina from a nearby pueblo find a way to make farolitos (lighted candles in paper bags weighted with sand) to light the way for the Christmas pilgrims. The Spanish words are a natural part of the narrative (they're explained in a glossary at the back), and if the plot's contrived (Dad returns home just in time), the image of the path of light is touching and beautiful." -- Hazel Rochman, Booklist
Product Details
| Recommended Age | 5 - 8 |
|---|---|
| Author | Rudolfo Anaya |
| Illustrator | Edward Gonzalez |
| ISBN | 0786800607 |
| Publication Date | Dec 25, 1995 |
| Publisher | Hyperion |
| Language | English |