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Juan de Pareja, the slave who prepares the paints and canvases of the artist Velâazquez, describes his work with his master and the climate of Spanish court life. I, Juan de Pareja is the winner of the 1966 Newbery Medal. Spanish Edition.
The story of a great painter and the slave he helped to become an artist.
Si bien ese trabajo está prohibido a los esclavos ..?qué pasará cuando de sepa la verdad?"--Page 4 of cover.
The story of Juan, a slave, willed to the great Spanish painter Velazquez, and how their relationship changed from master/slave to equal/friend.
In Spanish. This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic, TICTTL 2011, held in Salamanca, Spain, in June 2011.
Relates the adventures of a boy growing up at the time of the Mexican Revolution.
In this vivid autobiography, Newbery Award winning author Elizabeth Borton de Treviño brings to life her experiences with the culture and the faith of a civilization so close to the United States, but rarely appreciated or understood.
In a vibrant novel which depicts both the beauty and the cruelty of the time and place, Elizabeth Borton de Treviño tells the story of Juan, who was born a slave and died an accomplished and respected artist.
This Spanish translation of the historical novel "I, Juan De Pareja" is based on the life of Juan de Pareja, the black assistant to the 17th-century Spanish painter Velazquez. Newbery Medal Book.
Fictionalized account of the life of an assistant to the painter Velazquez.
Offers a fictionalized account of the life of Juan de Pareja, a young slave who grew to become an assistant to the painter Velazquez.
Juan de Pareja, the slave who prepares the paints and canvases of the artist Velazquez, describes his work with his master and the climate of Spanish court life
Juan de Pareja, the slave who prepares the paints and canvases of the artist Velázquez, describes his work with his master and the climate of Spanish court life.
A young boy is given the task of caretaker for an albino deer in the mountains of Mexico.