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La Noche Buena: A Christmas Story
Nina is visiting her grandmother in Miami for Christmas. Usually she spends it in snowy New England with her mother and her family, but this year is different. She isn’t certain what to make of a hot and humid holiday, until she learns the traditions of her father’s side of the family from her Cuban grandmother. She helps prepare for the evening and takes part in all their...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
November 1st 2010
by Harry N. Abrams
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La Noche Buena captures how a Cuban family in Miami celebrates on December 24th. This is very similar to how my family celebrates La Noche Buena in California. My Mexican family loves to get together in masses during this special time. Everyone usually contributes some food or all the woman spend all day in the kitchen making tamales, champurado, and posole. The men usually hang out side cooking other foods like roasted chicken and carne asada. Some of the family likes to go to church at midnigh...more
Typically when I think of Christmas I think of cool if not out right cold weather and dreaming of snow that sometimes comes and sometimes does not. Although I was introduced to many different cultures and environments for Christmas through 17 Christmases. Now through the words of Antonio Sacre we're introduced to another cultural Christmas. Every family has their traditions and the Cuban-American culture is valuable to Nina's father's family and this is her Christmas with them. Through a melting...more
When Nina arrives at her grandmother's house it is a lot different than her home in snowy New England. She is greeted by her family and they have a great time cooking and having a good time as they wait for the best day of the year to arrive. Christmas Eve. They dress in their finest clothes and eat and dance until the sun rises on Christmas Day. They are tired but happy as they head off to bed. Nina discovers you can have a great Christmas as long as you are surrounded by those you love and you...more
I loved learning about the Cuban Christmas traditions. I wish the writing (of which there was a lot--I had to condense parts of it for my two-year-old) had been a little more fluid.
Warm story of a Cuban-American family celebrating the Christmas holidays.
Lovely Story!
A young American girl is sent to experience a traditional Cuban-American Christmas Eve with her grandmother in this vibrant picture book.
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