The books in this section are usually hardcover and in decent shape, though we'll sometimes offer hard-to-find books in lesser condition at a reduced price. Though we often put images of the book with their original dust jackets, the copies here won't always (or even often) have them. If that is important to you, please call ahead or say so in the order comments!
"Amid the tall green stalks of corn small Nino lay asleep in a basket. The morning sun threw dappled shadows across his face, and dragonflies poised above his head on whirring wings."
Thus begins the story of the childhood on Nino, who, with his mother, lived in the house of his grandfather because his father had gone to America. It goes on through later years to tell of his early schooling, the discovery of his talent for modeling by Jacobo, the woodcarver, who found him making a duck of mud at the edge of a stream, and finally the letter that came from his father with enough money for passage to America.
The pictures flow through it all and are as gentle and delicate as the story itself.
—from the dust jacket
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