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Product Description: One day, old man Antonio is walking in the mountainous jungles of Chipas with his old friend Subcomandante Marcos, when he sees a macaw. The bird reminds the old man of a folk tale--the story of how the gods found all the colors in the world.

'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