Button, Bucket, Sky (Picture Books)

By Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Briggs Martin

Book Overview

"Includes a thorough historical overview of the changing Bolivian economic and political circumstances that have made the Santa Cruz region so attractive to migrants. . . . Well written"--Choice "This outstanding analysis of international migration is the kind of regional study carried out a generations of so ago by geographers.? Now a brilliant anthropologist has . . . written a vivid account of the settlement of Santa Cruz (city and province) by highlanders and their interethnic relations with Lowlanders."--Latin America in Books ? Stearman describes the changing interethnic relationships between the highland Kolla and the lowland Camba in the Santa Cruz region of Bolivia's Amazon Basin, and between these indigenous Bolivians and the Asian and European immigrants brought to Bolivia to help establish the agricultural colonies. ?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157505244X
• ISBN13: 9781575052441
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Read!

I read this book to my library students to cooincide with Earth Day. It really was a wonderful read. After reading the story, we acted the story out-I found a script for the students to use. My students always enjoy acting out stories!