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Colores de la Vida: Mexican Folk Art Colors in English and Spanish (First Concepts in Mexican Folk Art)

Colores de la Vida: Mexican Folk Art Colors in English and Spanish (First Concepts in Mexican Folk Art)

Current price: $12.55
Publication Date: June 28th, 2011
Publisher:
Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN:
9781643796604
Pages:
32
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Description

Imaginatively colored and adorned animals handcrafted in Oaxaca, Mexico, help teach children a rainbow of colors in English and Spanish.

Animales adornados y de colores imaginativos hechos a mano en Oaxaca, M xico, ayudan a ense ar a los ni os un arco ris de colores en ingl's y espa ol.

Have you ever seen an orange lion? A purple rabbit? These funny animals and more fill this delightful book brimming with bright colors. Young children learn color names -- both the basics such as red and yellow, and a few unusual ones such as turquoise and gold -- and pair each with the whimsical creature representing the color.

Fifteen folk artists from Oaxaca created the imaginative color-specific creatures. Young children will find identifying colors so much fun that they will easily answer the final questions: Can you say all the colors in Spanish? / Puedes nombrar todos los colores en ingl s?

Alguna vez has visto un le n anaranjado? Un conejo morado? Estos divertidos animales y m's llenan este encantador libro lleno de colores brillantes. Los ni os peque os aprenden los nombres de los colores, tanto los b sicos--como el rojo y el amarillo y tambi n algunos inusuales, como el turquesa y el dorado--y emparejan cada uno con la criatura caprichosa que representa el color.

Quince artistas populares de Oaxaca crearon las imaginativas criaturas de colores espec ficos. A los ni os peque os les resultar tan divertido identificar los colores que responder n f cilmente la ltima pregunta: Puedes nombrar todos los colores en ingl s? / Can you say all the colors in Spanish?

About the Author

Cynthia Weill's fascination with the crafts of Oaxaca began while she was working in Mexico as a Fulbright exchange teacher. She has published several books in the First Concepts in Mexican Folk Art series, which features different folk art of Oaxaca. Many of the figures showcased in this series are now part of the permanent Mesoamerican Anthropology collections at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Cindy lives in New York City and online at cynthiaweill.net. Folk artists in the Mexican state of Oaxaca create crafts using many different techniques, including wood carving, tin work, ceramics, and papier-mâché. Fifteen artisans from this region handcrafted the charming, imaginative figures depicted in this book.