Book Description
for Family Pictures by Carmen Lomas Garza
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Brilliantly colored oil, acrylic and gouache paintings illustrate scenes from the Chicana artist's childhood in Kingsville, Texas. Details from traditional Hispanic family and community life abound in the naive-style illustrations, as well as in the accompanying explanatory passages printed in both English and Spanish. (Age 7 and older)
CCBC Choices 1990 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1990. Used with permission.