This book tells how families in Mexico gather together to celebrate los Dias de los Muertos, the Days of the Dead, every year at the end of October. Although this is a holiday to honor and remember the dead, it is not a sad time. Instead, it is a festive time of happy memories when people mock death with candy coffins and calacas--handmade figurines of skeleton musicians, brides and grooms laughing it up in the afterlife.

	Aislinn, a fifth-grader from P.S. 321 in Brooklyn, says, "It is a good research book and gives you a clear idea of the Days of the Dead and Mexican life. I learned that Mexicans don't think death is bad."