San Antonio College Library

Publisher's description: With a riotous mix of saints and devils, street theater and dancing, and music and fireworks, Christian festivals are some of the most lively and colorful spectacles that occur in Spain and its former European and American possessions. That these folk celebrations, with roots reaching back to medieval times, remain vibrant in the high-tech culture of the twenty-first century strongly suggests that they also provide an indispensable...

"Ray Bradbury's classic novel, now reissued, tells about the year Halloween came a week early. For Jim, age thirteen, eleven months, and twenty-three days, and his best friend, Will, age thirteen, eleven months, and twenty-four days, it was the week they both grew up. Halloween came and went, but the boys would never be young again. It all began with the handbill blowing down a dark street of their small Midwestern town: Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium...

Elliot the little elephant is terrified when his friend Mouse introduces him to the carnival, but Mouse helps him to have fun.