Mi familia calaca / My Skeleton Family (Bilingual)

Welcome to the family! It’s just like yours: father, mother, sister, brother, abuelita, gato, even a great-great grandmother. Well, but there’s something just a little bit different about this particular family. Maybe it’s those clothes they wear just a little bit fashion backward. And the colors! So vibrant and lively. Maybe that’s what it is. They are just so full of life while looking almost other worldly.

Cynthia Weill’s latest bilingual book for young readers teaches basic information about relationships, while also celebrating the colorful tradition of Mexico’s Day of the Dead. Artist Jesus Canseco Zarate long-limbed sculptures are a playful twist on traditional Mexican iconography of the skeleton that stretches back through the country’s art history to José Gualdalupe Posada’s engravings and Aztec sculpture.