A Land of Books : Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters

A young Aztec girl tells her little brother how their parents create beautiful painted manuscripts or codices. She explains to him how paper is made from local plants and how the long paper is folded into a book. Her parents and others paint the codices to tell the story of their people's way of life, documenting their history, science, tributes sacred rituals. A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters by Abrams pays tribute to Mesoamerican ingenuity and celebrates the universal power of the written word.