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Cinco Puntos Press Releases
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Little Zizi
March 25, 2008
The newly released Little Zizi was reviewed in Kirkus: "the frankness and humor with which author and illustrator address [the subject] will draw a …swelling audience."
Little Zizi is available now!
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Soldaderas among the most favored
February 27, 2008
Las Soldaderas by Elena Poniatowska has been chosen as one of the "Top 23 Hits by Readers" of RALPH Magazine!
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Jessica Powers Reading Tonight!
August 15, 2007
Please join us on Wednesday, August 15, at 6 pm, for a reading and reception for our friend and former employee Jessica Powers to celebrate the publication of her first novel THE CONFESSIONAL, a Young Adult murder mystery set in El Paso. In a starred review, Publisher's Weekly called The Confessional "ambitious" and Kirkus Reviews called it "compelling" and "convincing."
Celebratory Reception and Reading for
Jessica Powers at Cinco Puntos
When: Wednesday, August 15, 6 pm
Where: 701 Texas Avenue, El Paso, TX (offices of Cinco Puntos Press)
Call 838-1625 for directions or more information
A small number of copies of the book will here in the Cinco Puntos Press store for purchase. (We will not be selling the book online, only in the store.)
Additional copies can be purchased at the Barnes and Noble on the Westside, where Jessica will be signing books at 2 pm on Saturday, August 18.
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Summertime Sales!
June 13, 2007
In addition to our everyday 15% discount on all orders over $20, we're now offering weekly discounts on our popular books!
This week is history week and we're offering two of our best sellers:
Ringside Seat to a Revolution by David Romo
Crossing Bok Chitto by Tim Tingle
Don't miss out! This sale ends soon.
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The Mexican Card Game, Loteria
February 19, 2007
We hope you’ll enjoy our new bilingual early reader, The King of Things/El rey de las cosas by Artemio Rodríguez. In this bilingual early reader, little Lalo receives inspiration from the famous Mexican game, Loteria. Since he is the King of Things and of his Mexican game Loteria—and three years old besides—he plays with the Mexican cards, counting as his possessions the sun, the moon, a lion, a fish, a clown, a train, the crown on his head. Each Mexican card in Lalo’s kingdom has its own page, illustrated with a playful brightly colored Loteria woodcut by L.A.-based artist Artemio Rodríguez.
Loteria is an old Mexican game of chance played throughout Mexico. It first became popular in the last half of the eighteenth century and is still widely played at festivals, fairs and carnivals. Despite its name, the Mexican card game loteria most resembles a form of bingo using pictures instead of numbers. Lotería cards—along with lucha libre masks, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dia de los Muertos, Che Guevara and countless other imported images—are synonymous with Latino culture which has been exuberantly embraced by Mexican card game loving Latinos and Anglos alike in this country.
Born in Tacámbaro, Michoacán, printmaker Artemio Rodríguez is a well known engraver-printer in Los Angeles, California. As a printmaker Artemio works primarily in black and white, Rodríguez’s signature style emphasizes simplicity and clarity. European medieval woodcuts and the great Mexican print artists such as Jose Guadalupe Posada have been influential in Rodríguez’s print making career. His strong black and white woodcuts have been called an integral part of two books: Woodcuts of Women (Grove Press) by Dagoberto Gilb, and Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems, A Book of Lives (City Lights) by Juan Felipe Herrera. Artemio, along with his compañera Sylvia, is the owner of La Mano Press and exhibits his work extensively in California and Mexico.
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Ringside Seat keeps the awards coming!
September 15, 2006
Ringside Seat keeps the awards coming!
David Romo's illustrious Ringside Seat to a Revolution has won the 2006 Writers' League of Texas Violet Crown Award for best work of nonfiction!
All winners of the Violet Crown Award will be featured authors at this year's Texas Book Festival. On Saturday, October 28, there will be a ceremony and panel discussion with the winning authors at the State Capital Building in Austin, Texas.
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