Random House New Releases - Juvenile Nonfiction - People & Places - Mexico

National Geographic Countries of the World: Mexico by Beth Gruber

2009-08-11T00:30:00-05:00

National Geographic Countries of the World: Mexico
Written by Beth Gruber

Trade Paperback, 64 pages | National Geographic Children's Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - People & Places - Mexico | $12.95 | 978-1-4263-0566-5 (1-4263-0566-4)

Hecho en Mexico by Susan L. Roth

2008-02-26T00:30:00-05:00

Hecho en Mexico
Written by Peter Laufer
Illustrated by Susan L. Roth

Hardcover, 32 pages | National Geographic Children's Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - People & Places - Mexico; Juvenile Nonfiction - People & Places | $16.95 | 978-1-4263-0364-7 (1-4263-0364-5)

How to Be an Aztec Warrior by Fiona MacDonald

2008-01-08T00:30:00-05:00

How to Be an Aztec Warrior
Written by Fiona MacDonald

Trade Paperback, 32 pages | National Geographic Children's Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Mexico; Juvenile Nonfiction - People & Places - Mexico; Juvenile Nonfiction | $5.95 | 978-1-4263-0168-1 (1-4263-0168-5)

Have you sharpened your weapons? Are you ready for battle? Can you speak Classical Nahuatl? Do you know the legend of the vision of the eagle clutching the snake on a prickly pear cactus—the first signal to our ancestors of the site our great city of Tenochtitlan? Can you take prisoners and bring them back alive to offer as human sacrifice to the gods? Only then may you cut your hair! So are you ready for your initiation as an Aztec Warrior?

Remember the Alamo by Paul Robert Walker

2007-04-24T00:30:00-05:00

Remember the Alamo Texians, Tejanos, and Mexicans Tell Their Stories
Written by Paul Robert Walker

Hardcover, 64 pages | National Geographic Children's Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - History - United States - 19th Century; Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Military & Wars; Juvenile Nonfiction - People & Places - Mexico | $17.95 | 978-1-4263-0010-3 (1-4263-0010-7)

Remember the Alamo presents a fresh look at one of the most famous battles in American history. The story has been told countless times in everything from comic books to feature films. Always it is the brave Americans—Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, William Travis, and others—fighting the overwhelming forces of a cruel dictator for the right to live in a Texas independent of Mexican rule. Too often, little mention is made of the Tejanos—Mexican Texans—who put their lives on the line to fight alongside the other defenders at the Alamo. And what about Santa Anna? Was he so wrong in trying to keep Americans from taking over his country? Clearly there is more to the story.

Paul Robert Walker has studied the evidence—messages sent out from the Alamo before the battle, reports written by Tejano and Texian leaders, eyewitness accounts from a slave and the handful of women and children who were spared by Santa Anna, and stories told by Mexican officers and soldiers. He has consulted with experts, examined the historic sites, and read the most recent scholarly theories to present the story of the Alamo through the eyes of Texians, Tejanos, and Mexicans as you've never heard it before.

Remember the Alamo by Paul Robert Walker

2007-04-24T00:30:00-05:00

Remember the Alamo Texians, Tejanos, and Mexicans Tell Their Stories
Written by Paul Robert Walker

Hardcover Library Binding, 64 pages | National Geographic Children's Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - History - United States - 19th Century; Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Military & Wars; Juvenile Nonfiction - People & Places - Mexico | $27.90 | 978-1-4263-0011-0 (1-4263-0011-5)

National Geographic Countries of the World: Mexico by Beth Gruber

2006-12-12T00:30:00-05:00

National Geographic Countries of the World: Mexico
Written by Beth Gruber

Hardcover Library Binding, 64 pages | National Geographic Children's Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - People & Places - Mexico | $27.90 | 978-0-7922-7669-2 (0-7922-7669-8)

Join National Geographic's quest to find the heart and soul of Mexico.

Journey through a land of incredible biodiversity: from the Rio Grande to the Sierra Madre. Visit Mexico City, the vast metropolis built on an ancient lakebed. Study the country's history of earthquakes and volcanoes and its current struggles to protect animal habitats.

Explore Mexico's history as the center of the Olmec, Maya and Aztec civilizations in Beth Gruber's lively text. Learn how Mexico's borders once extended north to southern Wyoming, west to California, and east to Louisiana. Witness the cultural and political aftereffects of Spanish Catholicism and discover how the hacienda system of agriculture led to revolution.

The author also explains the importance of family and traditions in Mexican culture and the country's rich artistic heritage.

Finally, readers will come to understand the disappointments of the Revolution, the limits of the single-party system, social inequalities, the economy, emigration to the United States, and the effects of the tourist boom on the environment.

Made in Mexico by Susan Roth

2000-04-01T00:30:00-05:00

Made in Mexico
Written by Peter Laufer
Illustrated by Susan Roth

Hardcover, 32 pages | National Geographic Children's Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - People & Places - Mexico | $16.95 | 978-0-7922-7118-5 (0-7922-7118-1)

Random House New Releases - Juvenile Nonfiction - People & Places - Mexico

National Geographic Countries of the World: Mexico by Beth Gruber

National Geographic Countries of the World: Mexico Written by Beth Gruber

Hecho en Mexico by Susan L. Roth

Hecho en Mexico Written by Peter Laufer Illustrated by Susan L. Roth

How to Be an Aztec Warrior by Fiona MacDonald

How to Be an Aztec Warrior Written by Fiona MacDonald

Remember the Alamo by Paul Robert Walker

Remember the Alamo Texians, Tejanos, and Mexicans Tell Their StoriesWritten by Paul Robert Walker

Remember the Alamo by Paul Robert Walker

Remember the Alamo Texians, Tejanos, and Mexicans Tell Their StoriesWritten by Paul Robert Walker

National Geographic Countries of the World: Mexico by Beth Gruber

National Geographic Countries of the World: Mexico Written by Beth Gruber

Made in Mexico by Susan Roth

Made in Mexico Written by Peter Laufer Illustrated by Susan Roth

National Geographic Countries of the World: Mexico
Written by Beth Gruber

Hecho en Mexico
Written by Peter Laufer
Illustrated by Susan L. Roth

How to Be an Aztec Warrior
Written by Fiona MacDonald

Remember the Alamo Texians, Tejanos, and Mexicans Tell Their Stories
Written by Paul Robert Walker

Remember the Alamo Texians, Tejanos, and Mexicans Tell Their Stories
Written by Paul Robert Walker

National Geographic Countries of the World: Mexico
Written by Beth Gruber

Made in Mexico
Written by Peter Laufer
Illustrated by Susan Roth