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Patio is a word that comes from Spanish. It means “court open to the sky”. So, here is an illustration of a patio complete with furniture and planters.
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One last food item. Bananas did not originate in Latin America, but they have had a huge impact on the history of the region. Here’s an illustration of a bunch of bananas next to a bowl of cereal with banana slices.
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This is one of my favorite illustrations from this project. A little girl dressed as La Catrina for Dia de Muertos.
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These two dancers are performing the traditional Mexican Hat Dance. It is Mexico’s national dance and is often performed during Cinco de Mayo celebrations. Again, this is a very small illustration. That’s why the faces are mostly featureless.
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Salsa dancing is a very Latin American tradition. This illustration is actually very small on the page, so that’s why the dancers are mostly faceless.
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Potatoes are a Latin American food. They originated in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Here’s potatoes, fries, and potato chips.
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Here’s another example of a Latin American food for this book project. Chips and guacamole with a half avocado.
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A chocolate bar next to some cocoa beans and a cocoa pod. I hadn’t realized how big these things were until I looked them up. This illustration appears in the book next to a paragraph about chocolate being an example of a food grown in Latin America.
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To get the full effect on this one, imagine it is hanging from one of the letters in the page header. It was tied, if I remember right, to the bottom of an “E”. There are three different depictions of pinatas in this book, all of them star-shaped.
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This one is a very simple, and it was very small on the page. Just a smiling boy.
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