Family Pictures / Cuadros de familia

By Carmen Lomas Garza, Sandra Cisneros, Pat Mora
Paperback: $11.95

Bilingual English/Spanish. In this Pura Belpré Honor-winning book, Carmen Lomas Garza tells the story of her childhood growing up in Kingsville, TX.

Description

Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza’s girlhood in Kingsville, Texas: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, picking cactus, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist. These day-to-day experiences are told through fifteen paintings and stories, each focusing on a different aspect of Carmen’s traditional Mexican American culture growing up.

The paintings and stories reflect the author’s strong sense of family and community and demonstrate how her mother’s love and hard work helped Carmen achieve her dream. For the hundreds of thousands of Mexican Americans, Carmen Lomas Garza offers a book that reflects their lives and cultural traditions. For others, this beautiful work will offer insights into a fascinating life and a rich community.

Sandra Cisneros provided the introduction and Pat Mora the afterword for this touchstone of Latino children’s literature.

This book is bilingual (English and Spanish).

About the Creators

Carmen Lomas Garza

Carmen Lomas Garza is one of the most prominent Mexican American painters working today. Born and raised in Texas, she now lives in San Francisco, California. Her paintings have traveled all over the United States and Mexico in numerous exhibitions. Visit her website at carmenlomasgarza.com.

Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros
Pat Mora

Pat Mora is the celebrated Latina author of forty award-winning children’s poetry and prose picture books. A lifelong literacy advocate, she founded Children’s Day, Book Day (El día de los niños, el día de los libros) to celebrate children and motivate them to become readers with daily support from families, teachers, and librarians and annual festivities on April 30. Mora lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Visit her online at patmora.com.

Awards

  • ALSC Notable Children's Books

    American Library Association (ALA)

  • Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor

    American Library Association (ALA)

Reviews

  • "Family Pictures is a visual feast, and an aural delight."

    - School Library Journal
  • "A beautiful book distinguished by the clean, crisp style and bright, harmonious colors of its art."

    - Kirkus Reviews
  • "Look again, and again, and again--for the haphazard detail of these loving snapshots emerges slowly, and is worth searching for."

    - Los Angeles Times
  • "Readers of various ethnic origins should use this exemplary bilingual book as a litmus test for exploring diversities of multicultural lifestyles; Family Pictures will shed some much-needed light on society's cultural barriers."

    - Publishers Weekly
  • "An honest portrayal of a culture rarely seen in children's books, and every page offers a lot to look at."

    - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Paperback

  • ISBN 9780892392070
  • Price $11.95
  • Publication Date Apr 01, 2013
  • Trim Size 9.5 × 11.5 × 0.3 in
  • Weight 0.4375 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Word Count 1374
  • Hardcover

  • ISBN 9780892392063
  • Price $16.95
  • Publication Date Jan 01, 2100
  • Trim Size N/A
  • Weight 0.4375 lbs
  • Interests

  • Imprint Children's Book Press
  • Audience Children
  • BISAC Category 1 JUV / Hispanic & Latino
  • BISAC Category 2 JUV / Cooking & Food
  • BISAC Category 3 JUV / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
  • Themes Art, Bilingual, Biography / Memoir, Childhood Experiences and Memories, Cultural Diversity, Dreams & Aspirations, Families, Food, Friendship, Holidays / Traditions, Home, Identity / Self Esteem / Confidence, Informational / Expository Nonfiction, Latinx / Latino / Hispanic, Nonfiction, Pride, Sharing & Giving, Siblings, Social & Emotional Learning
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 7 - 11
  • Grade Range Grades 2 - 6
  • Guided Reading Q
  • ATOS Book Level 4.3
  • DRA 40
  • Interest Level Grades 2 - 6
  • Lexile Code AD
  • Lexile Level 660
  • Lexile Measurement AD660L
  • Reading Level Grades 4 - 5
  • SRC 4.1
  • Bebop Reading Fluent
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