Be careful growing up in the green, wet, mango-sweet Mexican village of Rosario, where dead corpses rise up out of cathedral walls; where vast silver mines beneath the town occasionally collapse, causing a whole section of the village to drop out of sight; where Mr Mendoza wields his paintbrush as the town's self-appointed conscience Magic realism, озввх you say to yourself Luis Alberto Urrea says, "No, NOT magical realism It's simply how kids grow up in Mexico Especially if you're a boy " And the part about Mr Mendoza is really true: He brandishes his magical paintbrush everywhere, painting graffiti to singe the hearts and souls of trouble-making boys (especially if he catches a boy peeping at the girls bathing in the river) He'll steal the villain's pants and paint PERVERT on his naked buttocks And, finally, one day Mr Mendoza's paintbrush creates a miraculous event that no one in Rosario ever forgets!Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of the widely acclaimed novel The Hummingbird's Daughter and a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction for The Devil's Highway Inducted into the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Urrea was born in Tijuana, Mexico, to a Mexican father and an American mother This is his first graphic novel and another great book, like Vatos, that even reluctant readers will love Christopher Cardinale is a muralist and artist with a social message His large-scale murals against globalization and war can be seen in New York, Italy, Greece, and Mexico He lives in Brooklyn.  Kankulu2009 г Мягкая обложка, 64 стр ISBN 1933693231.