pickA charming story with beautiful illustrations and good narration. I liked the authors' note about traditional Mesoamerican stories of the sun & the moon, rabbits & opossums, and ceiba trees & agave. #hoopla #espanol #spanish
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Una historia preciosa con bonitas ilustraciones y buena narración. Me gustó la nota de los autores sobre los cuentos tradicionales mesoamericanos del sol y la luna, el conejo y el tlacuache, y la ceiba y el maguey.
Research for a project (but I should be working).
“Libraries are generally thought to be very quiet places…. Another way to think of a library, however, is as a world of frozen voices, captured and rendered accessible forever by one of the most powerful human developments of all time—the act of writing.”
A beautiful view of libraries, but I have to add that if the author thinks of libraries as only figuratively noisy, they‘ve never been to storytime or the teen section mid-afternoon!
“The quill moving over the paper made a faint scratching sound, then almost a squeak as the pen was pulled backward suddenly at an odd angle to cross out a word.” #firstlinefridays
pick“The names of the Fair Gods, Quetzalcoatl in the Aztec language, Kukulcan in the Mayan, and Gucumatz in the Quiche all have an identical meaning: “the feathered serpent, the snake covered with feathers, the green-feathered snake.“
#mysteriesbooks #constanceirwin #Quetzalcoatl #featheredserpent #mesoamerica #ningishzidda #thoth
