'Beautiful bilingual retelling for children of a folktale from Chiapas that explains how colors were created, why people differ in color and ways of thinking, and why the macau sports all the colors. Excellent translation; stunning illustrations. A remarkable book'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Recounts in English and Spanish a Maya legend about how the colors escaped from the box in which the gods stored them to bring color to a world where everything was black, white, or gray