Great story. I will have this in my library. It reflects on so many elements necessary to include countries in latin america as well as the indigenous community there. It's bilingual and has alot of vocab in both languages. The characters are based on real indigenous people.

Es la historia de una niña Ixchel que viendo a su madre como tejia queria tambien ella hacerlo pero la mamá no le permitia porque decia que era muy pequeña aun. Luego Ixchel trata de hacer estos tejidos con ramas y luego con residuos de lana pero no quedaban bien hasta que viendo tantas bolsas de colores tiradas hace el tejido de palastico y le queda muy bien y lo vende a buen precio en el mercado y se siente muy orgullosa de eso.

Ixchel wants to weave beautiful garments just like her mother, but her mother wants her to go to school. So day in and day out, Ixchel admires her mother's work; the beautiful colors, the way she blends it all together. She notices all the plastic bags discarded around her village, and has an idea; she cuts them into strips, and weaves a beautiful rainbow of colorful plastic. Ixchel begins weaving beautiful bags and purses! Her creativity and hard-work pay off and she is able to sell some of her bags at the market to help her family.

This is a beautiful story about passion, recycling, and the art of weaving. Sharing a story about a child who is innovative is so engaging to students.

This story is about a little Mayan girl that thinks outside the box and uses her creativiy to weave just like her mother by recycling plastic bags. I think that this story is a good way to show the lesson of being able to use the resources around you to make things better. I really think that this book should be in a text set at the elementary level just to show that when there is a will, there is a way regardless of the resources at hand. This is a really good book. ( )