Description
Fair Dust Jacket. a mylar dust jacket has been added, tan with illustration of boy and a deer. Dust Jacket has large piece missing at lower right corner on front, chipping on spine and edges, discoloration to spine, price clipped. Very Good binding is tan cloth over boards with red lettering on front and spine, red stamped fawn on front. Discoloration on front, lower right corner. Illustrated end papers of men riding donkeys. Black-and-white illustrations within. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.7″ tall x 5.9″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
From the moment the reader young or old — meets Chico, who is very busy hanging up strings of peppers in Mama Maria Rosalia’s kitchen, he enters another world. It is a world where goats and Indians climb steep cobble-stoned streets, where the village boys quarrel over the American tourists on the plaza, where silver-smiths work all day long making the things for which Mexico is famous. In all Mexico there is no town more famous than Taxco, and in all Taxco there was no more ingenious, mischievous and ambitious boy than Chico.
How Chico met Señor Bill, the American, and became his houseboy: how together they went to Mexico City; how they started their own silver shop; how they visited the mountain Indians. and how Chico fulfilled his ambition to become an artist in silver and took the silver fawn as his trademark –these make a book of lively incident and colorful detail.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
Ann Weil does three things supremely well. She makes of Chico a character who is as gay as he is lovable, she transports her reader bodily to the Mexico where the breakdown of a bus is an occasion for a picnic and a siesta in the shade, and she writes with all the joy, all the charm, all the movement of the little town of Taxco itself, She is singularly well informed about Mexican life. and that she embodies this information in her book without slowing up the story is no small element in her skill.
About the illustrator (from the dust jacket)
The publishers felt that such a book deserved particularly colorful illustrations, and in E. Leon’s carefree drawings they found a gaiety and a richness that match Mrs. Veil’s writing Jacket, end-papers and a double-page spread are in strong, sunny Mexican colors, while the black and white drawings are full of movement and humor.
