[Guatemomtobe]

I have a huge pile of books on my living room floor from the library right now so I'm glad you posted so I can get them listed for my own future reference because I know I won't get them all read before I have to take them back to the library. Many of them are children's books but really do capture the culture so well. I'm throwing in some miscellaneous Spanish nursery rhyme books that I found also because I want my little one to be able to keep some of the culture of her native land & language.

I am also reading I, Rigoberto Menchu...and highly recommend it. Sad but real.

"The Girl from Chimel" by Rigoberto Menchu (children's version of her biography.

"Barrilete, a Kite for the Day of the Dead" by Elisa Amado & Joya Hairs

"Children of Guatemala" by Jules Hermes

"Hello Guatemala" by Ruth Karen

"Guatemala Backstrap Weaving" by Norbert Sperlich & Elizabeth Katz Sperlich

"Song of the Chirimia, a Guatemalan Folktale" by Jane Anne Volkmer

"Mama & Papa Have a Store" by Amelia Lau Carling (beautifully illustrated, took me back in time to my time in Guatemala City).

"Abuela's Weave" by Omar S Castaneda

"Sawdust Carpets" by Amelia Lau Carling

"The Most Beautiful Place in the World" by Ann Cameron

"Los Pollitos dicen/The Baby Chicks Sing" by Nancy Abraham Hall & Jill Syverson-Stork (spanish nursery rhymes with Spanish & English)

"Pio Peep" Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes" by Alma For Ada & F Isabel Campoy (has Spanish & English)

"Arrorro, mi nino" Latino Lullabies & Gentle Games" by Lulu Delacre

These are some adult & youth fiction set in Guatemala:

"Colibri" by Ann Cameron

"Imagining Isabel" by Omar S Castaneda

"The Secret of the Sacred Lake" by Suzanne de Borhegyi

"When I was Elena" by Ellen Urbani Hilterbrand (non fiction book of a Peace Corp volunteers experience in Guatemala).

As I said, I got all of these at the library. I know I will buy some of the children's books for my own collection but it was nice to be able to look before I buy.

Enjoy!
Susan