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Copyright © 2005 by Laban Carrick Hill

First published in 2005 in the United States by Watson-Guptill Publications, a division of VNU Business Media, Inc., 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
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Excerpt on p. 92 from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait. Introduction by Carlos Fuentes; essay and commentaries by Sarah M. Lowe (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001), pp. 231-2
Chapter art from Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico by Jorge Enciso, Dover Publications, Inc., copyright 1947.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hill, Laban Carrick.
Casa Azul / by Laban Carrick Hill.
p. cm.
Summary: In 1940, after traveling from their country village to Mexico City to find their mother, fourteen-year-old Maria and her younger brother Victor are befriended by the artist Frida Kahlo and the talking animals and household objects that inhabit her home.
eISBN: 978-0-307-87503-7
1. Kahlo, Frida—Juvenile fiction. [1. Kahlo, Frida—Fiction. 2. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 3. Mexico City (Mexico)—History—20th century—Fiction. 4. Animals—Fiction. 5. Artists—Fiction. 6. Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957—Fiction. 7. Mexico—History—1910-1946—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H55286Cas 2005
[Fic]—dc22
2004023300
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