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Introduction

Month of ... October celebrates Dia de los Muertos!

Dia de los Muertos is a hoilday celebrated in Mexico and other Latin Americans. The holiday celebrates and honors relatives and friends that have passed away. Dia de los Muertos is a two-day celebration that occurs on November 1st and 2nd, coinciding with All Saint’s and All Soul’s Day. Part of the holiday tradition is the belief tha the loved ones return home, so an alter is constructed with the loved ones favorite foods and beverages. Along with food and beverages, other items on the alter include sugar skulls, marigolds, photographs and candles.

In This Issue

Adult books
Children's books

Events

Please take a look at the links below for Dia de los Muertos events around Houston.

Links

Adult books

Day of the Dead in Mexico: Through the Eyes of the Soul - by Mary J. Andrade

Publisher: La Oferta Review, Inc.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780966587647
ISBN-10: 0966587642

Describes the traditional observance of All Souls' Day--the Day of the Dead--in four states in east central Mexico.

Table of Contents

Mexico in Mind: An Anthology - by Maria Finn

Publisher: Vintage Departures
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2006
ISBN-13: 9780307274885
ISBN-10: 0307274888

A literary travel guide celebrates the land south of the border with a compilation of poetry, fiction excerpts, and nonfiction by Graham Greene, John Reed, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Alice Adams, Katherine Anne Porter, Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Salman Rushdie, Archibald MacLeish, Muriel Rukeyser, and Sandra Cisneros, among others.

First Chapter

Day of the Dead - by Judith A. Jance

Publisher: William Morrow
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2004
ISBN-13: 9780688138233
ISBN-10: 0688138233

Joining the Last Chance Club to review unsolved crimes, former sheriff Brandon Walker unexpectedly confronts one of his own botched cases and a serial murderer who is responsible for the heinous deaths of numerous orphan girls in colonial Mexico.

First Chapter

Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles Through Baja California, the Other Mexico - by C. M. Mayo

Publisher: University of Utah Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2002
ISBN-13: 9780874807400
ISBN-10: 0874807409

Armchair travelers as well as those who have been in Mexico will take pleasure in reading this fine collection of essays by Mayo (formerly economics, ITAM, Mexico City, she's the founding editor of Tameme). Moving through the different regions of Baja, Mayo describes its people, food, tourists, festivals, and problems in a travelogue-style narrative that alternates between description and her frequent conversations with the local people.

The Stanford Law Chronicles : Doin' Time on the Farm - by Alfredo Mirandé

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2005
ISBN-13: 9780268022846
ISBN-10: 0268022844

In the midst of a distinguished career, Alfredo Mirande left his position as professor of sociology and chair of ethnic studies at the University of California, to attend law school at Stanford University. This book is a chronicle of the events in his life that led him to make this dramatic change.

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Posada's Popular Mexican Prints: 273 Cuts - by José Guadalupe Posada

Publisher: Dover Publications
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1972
ISBN-13: 9780486228549
ISBN-10: 0486228541

Reproduces over two hundred and fifty of the late-nineteenth-century Mexican printmaker's broadside and popular book illustrations.

Children's books

Day of the Dead - by Carrie Gleason

Publisher: Crabtree Pub. Co.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2008
ISBN-13: 9780778742975
ISBN-10: 0778742970

Introduces the Mexican holiday of the Day of the Dead, and discusses its Aztec and Christian origins, preparations for the holiday, skeletons and other decorations and foods, holiday activities, and the holiday in the United States.

Fiesta!: A Celebration of Latino Festivals - by Sherry Shahan

Publisher: August House LittleFolk
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2008
ISBN-13: 9780874838619
ISBN-10: 0874838614

Describes a festival or holiday celebrated in Latin America for each month of the year, from the feast of Saint Anthony in January through Mexico's Cinco de Mayo, an Inca festival in Peru in June, and a ritual of African origin in Brazil in September.

Mexico and Central America: A Fiesta of Culture, Crafts, and Activities for Ages 8-12 - by Mary Turck

Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2004
ISBN-13: 9781556525254
ISBN-10: 1556525257

More than forty projects and three dramatic play scripts explore the interconnectedness of the cultures of Mexico and Central America and help children experience aspects of daily life throughout the region.

The Festival of Bones=: El Festival de las Calaveras: The Little-Bitty Book for the Day of the Dead - by Luis San Vicente

Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2002
ISBN-13: 9780938317678
ISBN-10: 0938317679

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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