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    Family gatherings often promise to be fruitful for grandkids, but they generally don’t offer much in the way of surprises. When the charming family at the center of Icy Watermelon / Sandía fría gathers to enjoy a watermelon and some family fun, they find that even something so simple can create a treat that the whole family enjoys. Hugo, María, and Sarita enjoy spending time with their abuelos. And they in turn enjoy teasing their grandchildren with adivinanzas, little riddles that make the children giggle and smile even while leading them to think about the world in new ways. So when Grandpa begins to reminisce about his own father, and about the watermelons they raised long ago, the three youngsters recognize yet another curious adivinanza in the telling: could their easygoing, jovial abuelo, with his grey hair and great big tummy, really have been a shy young man once? And what do those long-gone watermelons of many years back have to do with the family they are now? Together author Mary Sue Galindo and illustrator Pauline Rodriguez Howard present a delightfully sweet (even juicy!) tale for readers aged 3 to 7—a story that also carries the seeds of family tradition for them to plant and cultivate in some future summer.

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    Family gatherings often promise to be fruitful for grandkids, but they generally don’t offer much in the way of surprises. When the charming family at the center of Icy Watermelon / Sandía fría gathers to enjoy a watermelon and some family fun, they find that even something so simple can create a treat that the whole family enjoys. Hugo, María, and Sarita enjoy spending time with their abuelos. And they in turn enjoy teasing their grandchildren with adivinanzas, little riddles that make the children giggle and smile even while leading them to think about the world in new ways. So when Grandpa begins to reminisce about his own father, and about the watermelons they raised long ago, the three youngsters recognize yet another curious adivinanza in the telling: could their easygoing, jovial abuelo, with his grey hair and great big tummy, really have been a shy young man once? And what do those long-gone watermelons of many years back have to do with the family they are now? Together author Mary Sue Galindo and illustrator Pauline Rodriguez Howard present a delightfully sweet (even juicy!) tale for readers aged 3 to 7—a story that also carries the seeds of family tradition for them to plant and cultivate in some future summer.

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    Icy Watermelon / Sandia Fria by Mary Sue Galindo

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    Sanda fra

    Parents Choice Award Winner Amricas Award Commended Title Finalist, The Toms Rivera Mexican American Childrens Book Award

    By/Por Mary Sue Galindo


    Illustrations by/Ilustraciones por Pauline Rodriguez Howard

    Publication of Icy Watermelon is made possible through support from the Andrew Water Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. We are grateful for their support. Esta edicin de Sanda fra ha sido subvencionada por la Fundacin Andrew W. Mellon y el Fondo Nacional para las Artes. Les agradecemos su apoyo. Piata Books are full of surprises!

    Piata Books An Imprint of Arte Pblico Press University of Houston 452 Cullen Performance Hall Houston, Texas 77204-2004

    Mary Sue Galindo. Icy watermelon / by Mary Sue Galindo; illustrated by Pauline Rodriguez Howard = Sanda fra / por Mary Sue Galindo; ilustraciones por Pauline Rodriguez Howard. p. cm. Summary: When three generations of a family gather to eat watermelon, the grandparents reminisce about how the sweet fruit brought them together. ISBN 978-1-55885-306-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Grandparents Fiction. 2. Watermelon Fiction. 3. Mexican Americans Fiction. 4. Spanish language materials Bilingual. I. Title: Sanda fra. II. Howard, Pauline Rodriguez, ill. III. Title. PZ73.G143 2000 [E]dc21 00-035604 CIP

    The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984. Text copyright 2001 Mary Sue Galindo Illustrations copyright 2001 by Pauline Rodriguez Howard Printed in Hong Kong

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