DVD
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- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- EASTWOOD: Audiovisual Collection
A land of books: dreams of young Mexihcah word painters
Call Number
- DVD CHILDREN/FAMILY (CEN, EAS)
Languages
Closed-captioned.
Performers
Narrated by Carolina Hoyos.
Publication Information
Holland, OH : Dreamscape Media, LLC, [2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (28 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Ages: 4-8.
Summary
A young Aztec girl tells her little brother how their parents create beautiful painted manuscripts, or codices. She explains to him how paper is made from local plants and how the long paper is folded into a book. Her parents and others paint the codices to tell the story of their people's way of life, documenting their history, science, tributes, and sacred rituals. Duncan Tonatiuh's lyrical prose and beloved illustration style, inspired by the pre-Columbian codices, tell the story of how--contrary to the historical narrative that European colonizers bestowed "civilization" and knowledge to the Americas--the Aztec and their neighbors in the Valley of Mexico painted books and records long before Columbus arrived, and continued doing so among their Nahua-speaking descendants for generations after the Spanish Conquest.
Notes
"Dreamscape Video"--Container.
"Read along"--Container.
Based on the book A land of books by Duncan Tonatiuh.