Title Nine days to Christmas / by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida ; illustrated by Marie Hall Ets.

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Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department	JUV. 818 E85N	Check Shelf

Description	48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
	age Age: Children lcdgt
	edu Educational level: School children lcdgt
Series	Picture Puffins
	Picture Puffins.
Note	Art techniques used: Pencil drawings on dinobase with bursts of colored pencil and contrasting white.
Summary	Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.
Audience	510L Lexile.
	Decoding indicator: 80 (high) Semantic indicator: 80 (high) Syntactic indicator: 100 (high) Structure indicator: 90 (high) Lexile.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader LG 3.8 0.5.
Note	"A story of Mexico"--Cover.
Awards	Caldecott Medal Award, 1960
Subject	Christmas stories.
	Mexico -- Juvenile fiction.
	Caldecott medal books.
	Christmas stories. (OCoLC)fst00859866
	Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
	Christmas -- Fiction.
	Caldecott Medal books.
	Mexico -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Caldecott Medal Winner -- 1960.
	Christmas stories. (OCoLC)fst01726561
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Christmas stories.
Added Author	Labastida, Aurora.
Added Title	Story of Mexico
Other Form:	Online version: Ets, Marie Hall, 1895-1984. Nine days to Christmas. New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1991, ©1987 (OCoLC)1019911946
ISBN	0140544429 (pbk.)
	9780140544428 (pbk.)

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