Grandma's gift / Eric Velasquez.
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TextPublication details: New York : Walker, 2010.Description: [32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cmISBN: - 080272082X (hardcover)
- 0802720838 (reinforced)
- 9780802720825 (hardcover)
- 9780802720832 (reinforced)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Artists -- Juvenile fiction
- Gifts -- Juvenile fiction
- Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction
- Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction
- Christmas -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Pura Belpre Award.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Family & Pets | Velasque Eri | Available | 33111006674242 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This prequel to Eric Velasquez's biographical picture book Grandma's Records is the story of a Christmas holiday that young Eric spends with his grandmother. After they prepare their traditional Puerto Rican celebration, Eric and Grandma visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a school project, where he sees a painting by Diego Velasquez and realizes for the first time that he could be an artist when he grows up. Grandma witnesses his fascination, and presents Eric with the perfect Christmas gift-a sketchbook and colored pencils-to use in his first steps toward becoming an artist. A heartwarming story of self-discovery, Grandma's Gift is a celebration of the special bond between a grandparent and grandchild.
The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
Pura Belpre Award.