Clatter Bash!: A Day of the Dead Celebration

About this book

Get ready for a colorfully entertaining Day of the Dead celebration! Graveyard skeletons shake rattle and roll as a Mexican family marks the annual Day of the Dead holiday. At dusk on the holiday known as Day of the Dead a Mexican family has set out fiesta offerings in the graveyard in hopes that departed loved ones may return to visit. The playful skeletons rise from their graves to celebrate with gusto. All night long they sing dance dine tell stories and play games. As morning approaches they give thanks to the stars for their night of fun tidy up after themselves and leave no trace of their "clatter bash" behind as they return to their coffins until next years Day of the Dead. Author-illustrator Richard Keeps rollicking rhymesprinkled with Spanish wordscaptures the bone-rattling sounds and fun of the evening. An illustrated afterword gives information about the customs associated with el Dia de los Muertos a Mexican celebration of honoring relatives who have passed on.