cover image Clatter Bash!: A Day of the Dead Celebration

Clatter Bash!: A Day of the Dead Celebration

Richard Cleminson Keep. Peachtree Publishers, $15.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-56145-322-1

Honoring the Dead A trio of titles celebrates another tradition at the end of October. Clatter Bash! A Day of the Dead Celebration by Richard Keep honors both the memorial and festive aspects of this Mexican holiday. Cut-paper collages, accented with paints and markers show impeccably dressed skeletons feasting and chasing butterflies as night falls. ""Swirl-twirl/ Cha-cha-cha/ Boom!/ Clatter Bash!"" appears beneath a spread of fireworks exploding over bony dancers and sombrero-clad skeletons playing music. A more formal explanation of the holiday's traditions concludes the fiesta-bright volume. (Sept.) .