Maria Paints the Hills
- ISBN-10
- 0613773438
- ISBN-13
- 9780613773430
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-10-01
- Publisher
- Turtleback
- Author
- Pat Mora
Description
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, preparing for the fiesta, flying kites, and picking herbs--to entertain herself and her mother. When her mother gives her a set of paints, it is the dawning of Maria's creative self as she paints the hills around her beloved town.
