She can also cook exotic food, dance (anywhere, anytime), plan fun parties, and tell enchanting stories.
Tía Lola, however, knows a language that defies words she quickly charms and befriends all the neighbors. The last thing Miguel wants, as he's trying to fit into a predominantly white community, is a flamboyant aunt who doesn't speak a word of English. When Tía Lola arrives to help the family, Miguel and his hermana, Juanita, have just moved from New York City to Vermont with their recently divorced mother. Renowned Latin American writer Alvarez has created another story about cultural identity, but this time the primary character is 11-year-old Miguel Guzmán. Definitely not for preschoolers, but a valid interpretation to fascinate and challenge older readers. Some will be troubled by the terror and sexuality in these brooding, exquisite illustrations others will respond to their beauty and to the skill with which the artist has revealed the tale's mythic power. In the last, the huntsman-savior appears in a pillar of light. The illustrations deliberately refer to DorÇ's famous engravings (1867) two of the most dramatic poses are almost identical to DorÇ, but Montresor carries the tale into the 20th century with his extraordinary final pictures: the wolf swallowing the child as an act of love as well as ferocity then three textless spreads of Red Riding Hood, unhurt, within the complacent wolf like a child awaiting birth, floating pure on a field of scarlet that recalls her cloak. Montresor-an admired set designer as well as a Caldecott medalist (1965)-provides a theatrical setting with elegant architectural forms and a stylized forest in finely detailed black touched with soft color the dapper, white-suited wolf is an appealingly furry seducer, his victim a blond innocent. For many, Perrault's original version will be unfamiliar-it concludes with the wolf eating Red Riding Hood (in this faithful, economical translation, ``devouring'' her). In his introduction to this ``beautiful, violent tale,'' Luciano Pavarotti suggests that these illustrations ``will leave you breathless.'' That's an understatement.
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