
Illustrated with wonderfully ingenuous paintings of scenes of Santa Fe in the early part of the twentieth century, this picture book's story of a girl becoming an artist is based on childhood memories. Maria draws the world around her--chile vendors, the feast of San Isidro,...

Celebrated author Pat Mora makes magic with Maria Paints the Hills. Maria is an only child who lives with her widowed mother, a seamstress, in Santa Fe in the early twentieth century. Maria, an imaginative child who is enchanted by the world around her, spends much of her time...