Maya's Blanket/La Manta de Maya
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Description
Little Maya has a special blanket that Grandma stitched with her own two hands. As Maya grows, her blanket becomes worn and frayed, so with Grandma's help, Maya makes it into a dress. Over time the dress is made into a skirt, a shawl, a scarf, a hair ribbon, and finally, a bookmark. Each item has special, magical, meaning for Maya; it animates her adventures, protects her, or helps her in some way. But when Maya loses her bookmark, she preserves her memories by creating a book about her adventures and love of these items. When Maya grows up, she shares her book--Maya's Blanket/La manta de Maya--with her own little daughter while snuggled under her own special blanket. Inspired by the traditional Yiddish folk song "Hob Ikh Mir a Mantl" ("I Had a Little Coat"), this delightful bilingual picture book puts a child-focused, Latino spin on the tale of an item that is made into smaller and smaller items. Maya's Blanket/La manta de Maya charmingly brings to life this celebration creativity, recycling, and enduring family love.
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Product details
- 9-12
- Hardback | 32 pages
- 234 x 279 x 10mm | 408g
- 15 Aug 2015
- Children's Book Press (CA)
- English, Spanish
- Bilingual edition
- Bilingual
- Illustrations, unspecified
- 0892392924
- 9780892392926
- 1,164,593
Review quote
In a tender bilingual story inspired by a Yiddish folksong, Maya's beloved butterfly-laden blanket, made by herabuelitapasses through numerous incarnations. When the blanket frays, Maya and her grandmother fashion it into a dress and, later, a skirt. From there, it becomes a shawl, scarf, bookmark, and a story to pass down. In English and Spanish, Brown describes these transitions using a "House That Jack Built" structure: "So with her own two hands and Abuelita's help, Maya made hervestidothat was hermantainto afaldathat she loved very much." The angular poses and vivid colors of Diaz's illustrations evoke the feeling of stained-glass windows in this uplifting story of passing time, enduring love, and creative reuse.
--Publishers Weekly"Publishers Weekly" (09/15/2015)
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--Publishers Weekly"Publishers Weekly" (09/15/2015)
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