The book’s images are from painter and pop-culture muralist Moises Salcedo - who goes by El Moisés - and provide a splashy visual tour of winter holiday traditions in northern New Mexico, from handcrafted “farolito” candle lights to steaming “pozole” stew and an adventure that touches upon the three wise men. Translated literally, “abuelos” means grandfathers or grandparents, while it’s also used as slang for costumed family elders in northern New Mexico who traditionally go house-to-house at Christmastime to ask startled children whether they have been naughty or nice.
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The book became a movie - and an opera.Īnaya wrote his “New Mexico Christmas Story” for children initially in English, sprinkling in a smattering of Spanish-language words and phrases about Hispanic holiday comfort food and traditional Christmas pranks performed by “abuelos.” You have to fall in love with your second language in order to be any good with it at all.”Īnaya achieved lasting literary fame and influence with the novel “Bless Me, Ultima” in 1972 about a boy’s coming of age in post-World War II New Mexico under the guidance of a traditional spiritual healer. “We crafted that really, really, really carefully so that kids would be comfortable,” said Lamadrid, who first befriended Anaya in the 1970s.
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Lamadrid collaborated closely with Anaya in his final years to translate “Owl in a Straw Hat” series into Spanish. The book was crafted by Anaya painstakingly in his waning year as an invitation to children to explore literature in English and Spanish, said Enrique Lamadrid, a publisher and retired chairman of the Spanish teaching department at the University of New Mexico. The story extends a cycle of Anaya’s illustrated children’s books with a playful cast of animal characters, centered around a tiny, inquisitive owl named Ollie Tecolote. The tale from Rudolfo Anaya, who died from natural causes at 82, is being published posthumously for the holiday season by Museum of New Mexico Press with parallel text in Spanish and English. (AP) - An author known as the father of Chicano literature left behind a bilingual children’s book after his 2020 death, telling a story about Christmas in the American Southwest. Major General Alberto Then pointed out that only serious and hard-working people go on their way when they see a checkpoint, and then they have to submit to the checks.SANTA FE, N.M. The delinquent has never gone to a roadblock…I have not seen the first delinquent who has gone to a roadblock to be put in handcuffs,” said Maj. “The roadblocks to me are hateful to good society. The agents alleged that the couple was traveling in was white, the same color they had been warned about. The reason given by the National Police was that the agents were on the trail of an alleged motorcycle theft gang and had received an alert from Bonao that the alleged assailants were heading in the same direction. The young couple Elisa Muñoz and Joel Díaz were shot without any words. Last Easter, a married couple traveling from Villa Altagracia to Santo Domingo lost their lives when they arrived at a checkpoint installed by the National Police. The police director indicated that honest and working people usually go on their way calmly when they see a roadblock, which causes them inconveniences due to the loss of time and inconvenience of the activity. He also pointed out that the criminals “go out looking for them” since they never show up at the checkpoints and turn themselves into the authorities. The police director said that the checkpoints and roadblocks turn hateful to honest and hard-working people. The director of the National Police, Major General Eduardo Alberto Then, banned roadblocks and checkpoints on the streets and highways of the country because he believes that they are not very effective in stopping criminals.
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