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Title: Snapshots from the Wedding by Gary Soto, Stephanie Garcia ISBN: 0-698-11752-2 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fun point of view
Comment: Flower girl Maya tells the story of her cousin's wedding in vivid detail. She shares her often silly, but always observant tale of the event from a child's point of view. From the groom's broken arm to crying babies, she leaves little to the imagination.
Stephanie Garcia, illustrator of this 1998 Pura Belpre Award winner, uses a unique but effective approach by using photographs of three-dimensional picture boxes to convey the story. The boxes contain realistic clay figures and a collage of items from the wedding. The text and pictures are integrally tied, and the text often cleverly prompts the reader to look at something in the illustration.
This is such a fun book that it needs to be read several times to properly enjoy it. The writer is definitely in tune with a child's point of view.
Rating: 4
Summary: good but, casual reference to alcohol not for specified age
Comment: The book is an overall good portrait of a family celebration in any culture. The casual reference to beer and keg beer,however, are not acceptable for this age group. When we teach our children (in the drug awareness programs in schools) that alcohol is a drug and is bad, the message we send needs to be consistent. My daughter chose this book off of the shelf at the school library during the same week that they were promoting drug-free schools and really had trouble understanding why the people at the wedding would want to do "something bad for you". She will have plenty of time, in the years to come, to learn more about alcohol and all that it involves. She doesn't need the unsupervised exposure to it at this age.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent portrayal of a Mexican-American wedding!
Comment: Although this book is based on a Mexican-American wedding, the theme is universal. A child narrates the book, telling about the events that take place at a wedding. The book exquisitly portrays a family clebration through a child's eyes. It is a happy, sweet book that anyone can enjoy.
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Title: Chato and the Party Animals by Gary Soto, Susan Guevara ISBN: 0399231595 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Juv Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Chato's Kitchen by Gary Soto, Susan Guevara ISBN: 0698116003 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: In My Family/En Mi Familia by Carmen Lomas Garza ISBN: 0892391634 Publisher: Children's Book Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Old Man & His Door by Gary Soto, Joe Cepeda ISBN: 0698116542 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto, Ed Martinez ISBN: 0698114124 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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