Children travel from near and far to Cusco’s central square to offer thanks and praise in honor of the Sun God. They bring their traditional hats, capes, and costumes along with multicolored corn to celebrate the Incan festival of Inti Raymi with laughter, song, and dancing to the lively beat of the music. Bold acrylic paintings illustrate this simple tale. Several pages of additional information are appended about the holiday, other Peruvian festivals, the history and people of Peru, and the famous site of Machu Picchu. Chosen for the 2009 Children’s Catalog. djg

This rhyming text takes readers from Lake Titicaca all the way to the city of Cusco for the highly popular Inti Raymi festival, celebrated in June each year.