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Cinco de Mayo: Yesterday and today

Maria Cristina Urrutia and Rebeca Orozco

Non-Fiction Picture Book

Ages 6 to 8

Groundwood Books, 2008, 0-88899-877-5

  Every year, the people in the town of San Miguel Tlaixpan celebrate the fifth of May with a reenactment of what took place in Mexico in 1862. The fifth of May, Cinco de Mayo, is an important day in Mexico, and everyone gets into the spirit of things, dressing up as French soldiers, Mexican nationalists, and Indian warriors. Then they play out the battle that was fought between the French invaders and the Mexicans.

  With photographs of a contemporary reenactment, and period engravings of the events that took place in Mexico all those years ago, the authors show their readers how the past is remembered today and why the people of Mexico “feel more alive than ever when we celebrate the Cindo de Mayo together.”

 

 

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