Looking for Carrascolendas: From a Child's World to Award-Winning Television

by Aida Barrera

Book Overview

If your childhood friends were Agapito, the bombastic, bilingual lion; Campamocha, the fix-it man; Caracoles, the restaurant owner; Uncle Andy, the shoe seller; Berta and Dyana, the life-size dolls; and Se orita Barrera, then you grew up watching Carrascolendas. This award-winning show, which originally aired on PBS in the 1970s and was subsequently broadcasted throughout the country in the 1980s and 1990s, was the first Spanish and English...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292708920
• ISBN13: 9780292708921
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"