Looking for Carrascolendas: From a Child's World to Award-Winning Television (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series) by Barrera, Aida

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Austin, TX, U.S.A.: University of Texas Press, 2001 First Softcover Printing. As New/No Jacket as issued. Still sealed in shrinkwrap.. First Trade. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket.

Austin: University of Texas Press, [2001]. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. [xii], 16 pages of black and white photographs, 224 pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Near Fine, light soiling to corners and top edge, internally clean.

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New. If your childhood friends were Agapito, the bombastic, bilingual lion; Campamocha, the fix-it man; Caracoles, the restaurant owner; Uncle Andy, the shoe seller; Berta and Dyana, the life-size dolls; and Senorita Barrera, then you grew up watching Carrascolendas. This award-winning show, which originally aired on PBS in the 1970s and was subsequently broadcasted throughout the country in the 1980s and 1990s, was the first Spanish and English children's educational television program broadcast to national audiences in the United States. In this engagingly written memoir, creator-producer Aida Barrera describes how the mythical world of Carrascolendas grew out of her real-life experiences as a Mexican American child growing up in the Valley of South Texas. She recalls how she drew on those early experiences to create television programming that specifically addressed the needs of Hispanic children, even as it remained accessible and entertaining to children of other cultural backgrounds.… Read More

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Univ of Texas Pr, 2001. Paperback. New. 224 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. The award-winning show "Carrascolendas", which aired on PBS in the 1970s, was the first Spanish and English children's educational television program broadcast to national audiences in the United States. This title describes how the mythical world of "Carrascolendas" grew out of the author's real-life experiences as a Mexican American child.

University of Texas Press, 2001-04-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!