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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters

A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters

Tonatiuh, Duncan

Hardcover

General Juvenile FictionHistory

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1419749420
ISBN13: 9781419749421
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: Nov 15 2022
Pages: 48
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.44 Width: 10.32 Depth: 10.07
Language: English
Awards: Pura Belpre Award
Award-winning author-illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh sheds light on the significance of Aztec manuscripts and culture in his picture book A Land of Books.

Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Honor Book

A young Aztec girl tells her little brother how their parents create beautiful painted manuscripts, or codices. She explains to him how paper is made from local plants and how the long paper is folded into a book. Her parents and others paint the codices to tell the story of their people's way of life, documenting their history, science, tributes, and sacred rituals.

Duncan Tonatiuh's lyrical prose and beloved illustration style, inspired by the pre-Columbian codices, tell the story of how--contrary to the historical narrative that European colonizers bestowed civilization and knowledge to the Americas--the Aztec and their neighbors in the Valley of Mexico painted books and records long before Columbus arrived, and continued doing so among their Nahua-speaking descendants for generations after the Spanish Conquest.

From an award-winning author-illustrator, A Land of Books pays tribute to Mesoamerican ingenuity and celebrates the universal power of books.

Our world, little brother, is an amoxtlalpan, a land of books.

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