Adelita

Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524737232
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Book Description
Hace mucho tiempo—a long time ago—there lived a beautiful young woman named Adelita. So begins the age-old tale of a kindhearted young woman, her jealous stepmother, two hateful stepsisters, and a young man in search of a wife. The young man, Javier, falls madly in love with beautiful Adelita, but she disappears from his fiesta at midnight, leaving him with only one clue to her hidden identity: a beautiful rebozo—shawl. With the rebozo in place of a glass slipper, this favorite fairy tale takes a delightful twist. Tomie dePaola's exquisite paintings, filled with the folk art of Mexico, make this a Cinderella story like no other. Please note that the majority of this text is in English, with Spanish vocabulary throughout.

Adelita, A Sea Turtle's Journey

Author: Jenny Goebel
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807581151
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
The remarkable true story of the first sea turtle to be tracked across the Pacific Ocean. One moonlit night, a young loggerhead sea turtle crawled into the ocean. As she swam and rode currents, she wandered far from the beach where she'd hatched. How far? Nobody knew for sure. In 1996, this turtle, caught in Mexico, was given a name—Adelita—and a satellite tag was attached to her shell. Then she was set free in the Pacific Ocean. Adelita’s astonishing journey home led to a new understanding of sea turtles and inspired changes that have made the world a better place for them.

The Adelita

Author: Oakley M. Hall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description

Adelita’S

Author: Carlos Sanz
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514438941
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349

Book Description
Julian Valderrama, a young Spaniard from a small town, arrives to the International City of Tangier for reasons unknown to him. His only contact in town is Adelita who runs a boarding house with an iron fist. There he meets a mysterious woman who everybody calls the Duchess although no one knows if she is one, two young French teachers escaping their past, an eccentric Englishman determined to cross the Sahara on foot, and a comic individual dressed in a military uniform of his own making. Julian Valderrama is astonished by the diversity of the international city on the verge of losing its international status and tries to absorb as much of it as he can. He finds in the Duchess a mentor introducing him to the secrets of the city and a protector when in trouble. The death of the Duchess changes his life.

Soldaderas in the Mexican Military

Author: Elizabeth Salas
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292787669
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
This study explores the evolving role of women soldiers in Mexico—as both fighters and cultural symbols—from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Since pre-Columbian times, soldiering has been a traditional life experience for innumerable women in Mexico. Yet the many names given these women warriors—heroines, camp followers, Amazons, coronelas, soldadas, soldaderas, and Adelitas—indicate their ambivalent position within Mexican society. In this original study, Elizabeth Salas challenges many traditional stereotypes, shedding new light on the significance of these women. Drawing on military archival data, anthropological studies, and oral history interviews, Salas first explores the real roles played by Mexican women in armed conflicts. She finds that most of the functions performed by women easily equate to those performed by revolutionaries and male soldiers in the quartermaster corps and regular ranks. She then turns her attention to the soldadera as a continuing symbol, examining the image of the soldadera in literature, corridos, art, music, and film. Salas finds that the fundamental realities of war link all Mexican women, regardless of time period, social class, or nom de guerre.

David Jumps In

Author: Alan Woo
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525305131
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
An old game helps a new kid find his footing. It is David’s first day at his brand-new school. He doesn’t know anyone. At recess, he stands alone and watches the other children enjoying their activities on the playground, from practicing soccer moves and climbing monkey bars to playing hopscotch and daydreaming in the grass. Bundled deep inside David’s pocket is a string of rubber bands, knotted and ready for a game of elastic skip. But will anyone want to try that game? he wonders. Will anyone want to play with him? Sometimes you’ve got to stretch yourself to find the place where you belong.

Chicano Folklore

Author: Rafaela Castro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195146394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
Originally published under title: Dictionary of Chicano folklore. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2000.

Las Soldaderas

Author: Elena Poniatowska
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Archival photos and Elena Poniatowska tell the story of women soldiers during the Mexican Revolution.

White Paper on Land, Law and the Imaginary

Author: Adelita Husni-Bey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789492095275
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
Conceived as an exploratory collection of materials, the content of this book revolves around the relationship that artist Adelita Husni-Bey explored between legislation, notions of property, and agency vis-à-vis the right to housing in Egypt, the Netherlands, and Spain. Each chapter presents itself as a reflection of the themes: Land, Law, Imaginary, that range from art historical perspectives to narrative fiction, collages and field-work notes. As such the book's structure speaks to the project's unfolding in time and its presence in radically distinct contexts, while also chronicling the multi-disciplinary approach and the wide range of formats and methodologies the project has brought to great effect.

Domitila

Author: Jewell Reinhart Coburn
Publisher: Shens Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
In this Mexican retelling of the Cinderella story, there is no glass slipper and no fairy godmother. All Domitila has are her innate qualities and talents, resulting in the transformation of Timoteo, her suitor.