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Originally published in Mexico in 1999 as El Festival

de las Calaveras by Alfaguara, an imprint of Grupo

Santillana. Copyright text © 1999, Luis San Vicente.

Copyright illustrations © 1999, Luis San Vicente.

Festival of the Bones / El Festival de las Calaveras.

Copyright of this edition © 2002, Cinco Puntos Press.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or

reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written

consent from the publisher, except for brief quotations

for reviews. For further information, write Cinco

Puntos Press, 701 Texas Ave., El Paso, TX 79901;

or call 1-915-838-1625.

FIRST EDITION

HC: 10 9 8 7 6

PB: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Cover & book design by

Vicki Trego Hill of El Paso, Texas.

MANY THANKS to Marta Llorens of Alfaguara,

Ben Sáenz for his generous collaboration and

Susannah Mississippi Byrd for discovering

this book in the first place.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

San Vicente, Luis. [Festival de las Calaveras. English]

Festival of the bones = El festival de las calaveras : the

little-bitty book for the day of the dead / written and

illustrated by Luis San Vicente.—1st ed. p. cm.

“Originally published in Mexico as El Festival de las ca-

laveras.” Summary: Describes the Day of the Dead, or el

Día de los Muertos, a holiday celebrated in Mexico from

October 31 to November 2.

ISBN 978-0-938317-67-8 (HC); ISBN 978-1-941026-03-8 (PB)

1. All Souls’ Day—Mexico—Juvenile literature.

2. Mexico—Social life and customs—Juvenile literature.

[1. All Souls’ Day—Mexico. 2. Holidays—Mexico.

3. Mexico—Social life and customs. 4. Spanish language

materials—Bilingual.] I. Title.

GT4995.A4 S2513 2002 394.266—dc21 2002009764

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