Pancho Claus: The Original: Volume 2 - Mario from the Barrio - Softcover

Guerrero, Lalo; Guerrero, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1985384744 ISBN 13: 9781985384743

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

This is the story of Mario from the Barrio, a little boy and a neighborhood that Santa has not visited for a long while. Santa Claus is very busy and not just at Christmas. He works hard all year checking with his helpers to make sure every toy in his magic workshop is perfect. Santa also spends a lot of time checking lists to see if little boys and girls are naughty or nice. And every year there are more and more children in more towns all over the world. And no matter how fast Santa’s reindeer pull his toy-filled sleigh through the starry night, he worries about missing some of the children that have been good all year. So, Santa Claus decided to call on his cousin from south of the border for help. Pancho Claus was muy feliz--very happy--to add more towns and children to his travel plans on Christmas eve. The little donkeys that pull his carreta--his cart--full of toys, can fly as high and as fast as the reindeer that pull Santa’s sleigh. Christmas may be different this year for little Mario from the barrio. Find out why....

About this title

About the Author:

LALO GUERRERO was born in Tucson, Arizona on a cold Christmas Eve in 1916. An early love for music would take him far, learning to play the guitar when he was just nine years old. His mother was his first and only music teacher. Guerrero became internationally recognized as the “Father of Chicano Music” in a career that spanned generations. He was a great entertainer and he took his guitar and music everywhere – the White House, a neighbor’s house, a concert hall or a classroom. It was all the same to him. Lalo wanted to make people happy and his hermanos/brothers proud of their Mexican heritage. His corridos told stories of the struggles and triumphs of Mexican-American heroes from Cesar Chavez to Ruben Salazar. His boleros/ballads brought tears and his comic songs, laughter. He often said, “I only wrote about what I saw.” Doing just that, he became the musical historian of his beloved Chicano culture. His honors were many including an NEA National Heritage Fellowship (1991), National Folk Treasure, Smithsonian Institution (1980), Tejano Music Hall of Fame (1992), the Alma Award (1998) and invitations to the Jimmy Carter and George Bush White House. In 1997, President Bill Clinton presented the troubadour with the National Medal of Arts, the first Chicano ever to receive our nation’s highest arts award. Guerrero continued to entertain to standing ovations only months before his guitar was silenced on March 17, 2005 at the age of eighty-eight.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1985384744
• ISBN 13: 9781985384743
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 30
• Illustrator: Melanson Marc