Days of the Dead

Days of the Dead
Author: Kersten Hamilton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1510728597

By the critically acclaimed author of Tyger Tyger, a warm, magical story of a girl’s struggle to keep a promise to her dead mother. Glorieta Magdalena Davis Espinosa is happy that Papi married Alice. She’s happy that he can smile again after years of mourning Mamá. But the urn containing Mamá’s ashes disappeared into a drawer the day Alice moved in. If everything about Glorieta’s life is going to change, then she wants one thing to go her way: She wants to hear stories about her mamá when the family gathers on the last night of los Días de los Muertos. And that can only happen if Tia Diosonita will allow Mamá to be buried with the Espinosas in holy ground. If she will allow people to speak Mamá’s name. With the help of her best friend, River, and her cousin Mateo, Glorieta sets out to convince Diosonita that Mamá is not burning in Hell. To do so, she’ll have to learn to let hate go—and to love the people who stand in her way. In prose that sparkles with magical undertones, author Kersten Hamilton weaves a tender story about grief, faith, and the redemptive power of love.

The Book of Dead Days

The Book of Dead Days
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0307433838

THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But alchemy and sorcery are no match against the demonic power pursuing him. Helping him is his servant, Boy, a child with no name and no past. The quick-witted orphan girl, Willow, is with them as they dig in death fields at midnight, and as they are swept into the sprawling blackness of a subterranean city on a journey from which there is no escape. Praise for The Book of Dead Days: “Beautifully paced and sometimes blood-soaked. . . . A very tangible sense of evil.”—The Guardian “Subtle menace and power.”—The Independent “Packed with drama, mystery, and intrigue.”—The Bookseller

Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition

Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition
Author: Regina M Marchi
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2022-08-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1978821638

Examines how Day of the Dead celebrations among America's Latino communities have changed throughout history, discussing how the traditional celebration has been influenced by mass media, consumer culture, and globalization.

Days of the Dead

Days of the Dead
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1623342066

Many cultures have celebrations that commemorate their ancestors. Mexico's celebration, los Días de Muertos, the Days of the Dead, can be like a carnival. Young people throng the streets dressed up in ghoulish costumes. They beg for calaveras - treats - like candy skulls made of sugar or chocolate, and everyone buys pan de muerto, a bread decorated with a patter of bones. This is also a time for families to reunite in remembrance of those who have died. People go to market to buy what is needed for the ofrenda, or offering, to the souls of the departed - special foods and other items. The next morning, everyone goes to the cemetery to visit the graves of loved ones who have died. All through the night, they pray and sing by candlelight in celebration of the Days of the Dead. Author Kathryn Lasky and photographer Christopher G. Knight capture the spirit of this vibrant holiday with vivid prose and brilliant, full-color photographs.

Digging the Days of the Dead

Digging the Days of the Dead
Author: Juanita Garciagodoy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: All Souls' Day
ISBN: 9780870815904

In Digging the Days of the Dead, Juanita Garciagodoy depicts various aspects of the celebration - including Prehispanic and Spanish Catholic traces on its development as well as folk and popular culture versions - and describes its changing place in contemporary Mexico. Garciagodoy examines in detail differences in attitudes toward death in Mexico and the United States. In part because the living do not exclude the dead from their family circle, celebrants of Dias de muertos treat death as an intimate life companion and fear it less than their northern counterparts, who tend to view death as inimical.

Trick 'r Treat: Days of the Dead

Trick 'r Treat: Days of the Dead
Author: Michael Dougherty
Publisher: Legendary Comics
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1937278883

From the twisted imagination of Trick ‘r Treat creator Michael Dougherty (director of the upcoming Krampus and Trick ‘r Treat 2 and screenwriter of X-Men 2 and Superman Returns) alongside a top-notch team of creators including writers Todd Casey and Zach Shields (Krampus), Marc Andreyko (Batwoman) and artists Fiona Staples (Saga), Stephen Byrne (Buffy/Angel), Stuart Sayger (Bram Stoker’s Death Ship) and Zid (Son of Merlin) comes this 4-part collection that paves the way for the Trick ‘r Treat film sequel. Days of the Dead takes readers on a journey through Halloween history with 4 chilling new Trick ‘r Treat tales. Discover old-world lovers whose romance takes a chilling turn and Western pioneers who discover the dark side of the frontier. Travel to 1950s Los Angeles for a tale of pure horror noir and into the heart of small-town America to see some pranksters taught a lesson they'll never forget. Across centuries of Halloween horror, wherever fear lies, Sam will be waiting… From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Day of the Dead

The Day of the Dead
Author: Jean Moss
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2010-09-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486480267

Presents a collection of historical engravings depicting costumed skeletons representing the Mexican celebration of of Dia de los Muertos.

Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead
Author: Tony Johnston
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152024468

Describes a Mexican family preparing for and celebrating the Day of the Dead.

The Day of the Dead

The Day of the Dead
Author: Antoni Cadafalch
Publisher: Fastprint Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: All Souls' Day
ISBN: 9781907621017

Presents artworks in a variety of media by artists from Mexico and other countries that commemorate the Day of the Dead and depict its chief symbol, the "calavera" or human figure with a skull for a face and often a skeleton for a body.

The Day of the Dead

The Day of the Dead
Author: Chloe Sayer
Publisher: Laurence King
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781786277251

This anthology considers how the Day of the Dead has been celebrated in visual art and culture, from the traditional and iconic illustrations of Manuel Manilla and Jose Posada to the paper cuts of Aaron Velasco Pacheco, folk art of the Linares family and paintings of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. With a foreword by the ceramic artist and curator Carlomagno Pedro Martinez, this compendium also includes poems, songs and literature celebrating the festival, as well as dedicated chapters that focus on contemporary representations, such as urban art, graffiti and the street photography of Yolande Andrade.