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Cuban artist Flora Fong has launched her own website: http://www.florafong.com
Amelia Lau Carling has published her second children’s book on her family experiences in Guatemala. Sawdust Carpets, also available in Spanish as Alfombras de aserrín, was published by Groundwood Books (Toronto, Canada; February 10, 2005).
The Lau family travels to Antigua, Guatemala to visit their cousins. Although the Laus are Chinese and Buddhist, they adore the pageantry of Easter, and Easter in Antigua is exciting, with long, elaborate processions of penitents wreathed in incense and carrying colonial Spanish statues down the cobblestone streets of the city. The best part is seeing the elaborate carpets made of colored sawdust, which the processions walk over and destroy. On the morning of the most important procession, the heroine is invited to make her very own sawdust carpet. But why, she wonders, make something so beautiful, only to have it be ruined? Guatemalan and Chinese religious observances, dragon boat races and Easter processions, piñatas, baptisms, and Chinese tamales all weave in and out of this story, which celebrates beauty, religious celebration, and tolerance.
Her first book Mama & Papa Have a Store was published in 1998 by Dial Books and in 2003 Groundwood Books published the Spanish version La tienda de mamá y papá.
In this evocative picture book, Mama, Papa, and six brothers and sisters live behind a fabric and thread store in downtown Guatemala City in the late 1950s. The narrator's parents fled China during the Japanese invasion and, with a few neighbors, found refuge in Central America and opened their business. People come from all over to buy their bright fabrics and brilliant thread for weaving and making clothes. Author and artist Amelia Lau Carling depicts an almost magical kingdom where Chinese, Guatemalan, and Native cultures meet in harmony, where children can play and learn about all the different peoples who bring the city to vibrant life.
Check out and contribute to Wikipidea entries on "Overseas Chinese Groups" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Overseas_Chinese_groups and "Chinatowns in Latin America" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatowns_in_Latin_America. |
