George Ancona

Describes several festivals celebrated by Mexican Americans in the United States, including the Day of the Dead, Las Posadas, New Year's Day and the dance of Los Matachines, and Three Kings' Day.

Text and photographs present the traditions and the annual celebration of the charro, the Mexican cowboy.

Text and photographs depict the endangered situation of sea turtles, current efforts to protect them, and the effect of these conservation methods on those people who sell or eat the turtles.

Describes the preparation of fireworks as well as the festival honoring San Juan de Dios, the patron saint of Tultepec, Mexico, which is famous for its master pyrotechnics.

Recreates the first harvest feast celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 using the Pilgrim and Indian actors and the seventeenth-century setting of Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

One day Harry's bright red cardboard helicopter takes off with him in a gust of wind and gives him a thrilling ride.

Recreates Christmas Eve and Christmas morning in 1836 in the fictional village of Prairietown, Indiana, to show how the holiday was celebrated in a typical frontier community.

Photographs and text describe brother-sister relationships in which one sibling has a physical disability.

Text and photographs recreate life in an eighteenth century pioneer settlement in Nova Scotia.