Pegi Deitz Shea, Author, Cynthia Weill, Author, Chronicle Books, Author , illus. by To Ngoc Trang, embroidery by Phanm Viet Dinh. Chronicle $15.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3496-4
Weill, who worked for an international relief organization in Vietnam, Shea and Trang use a counting-book format to introduce readers to Tet—the Vietnamese new year—"as big a celebration as Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas...
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Cynthia Weill, Author , illus. by Quirino Santiago and Martín Santiago. Cinco Puntos $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-933693-56-9
This bilingual companion to the alphabet book ABeCedarios
also features images of Oaxacan sculptures (albeit from a different group of artists), but instead focuses on opposites. Wood statues of various animals face each other on each spread,...
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Cynthia Weill. Cinco Puntos, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-933693-82-8
Like its predecessors, this color-themed companion to ABeCedarios (2007) and Opuestos (2009) also features the handiwork of Oaxacan sculptors, who contribute stylized and vibrantly painted creatures that show off each color to its fullest and are...
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Cynthia Weill, illus. by the Aguilar Sisters. Cinco Puntos (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-935955-39-9
Weill’s fourth title in the bilingual First Concepts in Mexican Folk Art series, a counting book, features photographs of ceramic figurines crafted by a quartet of Oaxacan artisans known as the Aguilar Sisters. The traditionally dressed clay...
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Cynthia Weill, illus. by Jesús Canseco Zárate. Cinco Puntos (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-935955-50-4
Oaxacan folk artist Zárate creates papier-mâché sculptures of Day of the Dead–style skeletons that grin widely as a young skeleton named Anita introduces her family. In brief sentences that appear in English and Spanish, Anita discusses her younger...
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Cynthia Weill, photographs by Bryant Boucher. Cinco Puntos, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-947627-15-4
Tiny palm weavings created by the master artisans of Chigmecatitlán in Puebla, Mexico, are the stars of this career-themed dual-language book. Though the close-up photographs by Boucher don’t capture the amazing scale of these creations—according to
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