La Boda: A Mexican Wedding Celebration

by Nancy Van Laan

This collection of verse and pictures explores all the festivity of a traditional Mexican wedding. It describes the street parades, the fireworks, the dancing, and the eating of tortillas and mole as this village, in the mountains of Oaxaca, honours this special day.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316896268
• ISBN13: 9780316896269
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.3" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

truly multicultural

I love picture books, especially ones with warm, colorful, sweet illustrations. I love rhythmic, poetic language, made simple and accessible to children, and I love truly multicultural books! This book brings all of these elements together, added to the universal theme of the sacrament of Matrimony. I couldn't help but love it at first sight--or at first reading. How could one not love the bilingual first person dialog lines, as little Maria attends all of the many celebrations revolving around the wedding of her Alfonso and Luisa? The large families gathered, the music, dances, parades, fireworks, gifts--one, of course, a painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe--they all tell the story that culminate in the vows exchanged at church para siempre--for ever.