| Pinatas and Paper Flowers: Holidays of the Americas in English and Spanish Contributor(s): Yerkow, Lila Perl (Author), Bellinger, Victoria (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 089919155X ISBN-13: 9780899191553 Publisher: Clarion Books OUR PRICE: $7.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1983 Annotation: A bilingual book that describes the holidays children celebrate throughout America as well as those unique to Hispanic Americans. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science - Customs, Traditions, Anthropology - Juvenile Nonfiction | Holidays & Celebrations - General (see Also Religious - Christian - Holiday - Juvenile Nonfiction | Diversity & Multicultural |
| Dewey: 394.269 |
| LCCN: 82001211 |
| Lexile Measure: 870 |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6.96" W x 9.93" (0.42 lbs) 96 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 44133 Reading Level: 5.7 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 1.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Yerkow, Lila Perl: - Lila Perl Yerkow (1921-2013) received a B. A. from Brooklyn College and studied at both Columbia University and New York University. She began writing children's books when her children started elementary school. Yerkow wrote more than 60 books in her lifetime, including the Fat Glenda series, The Great Ancestor Hunt: The Fun of Finding Out Who You Are, and Behind Barbed Wire: The Story of Japanese Internment During World War II. In 1996, she co-authored Marion Blumenthal Lazan's memoir, Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story. |