Tiny Tortilla
Juan
Carlos discovers that, with the
right touch, he can transform
some special tortilla dough into
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The Day It Snowed Tortillas: El Dia Que Nevo Tortillas : A Classic from the American Southwest
Kids of all ages
are always asking Joe Hayes,
"How can it snow tortillas?"
Well, now they'll know where to
find the answer-at long last,
Joe's signature book The Day It
Snowed Tortillas is appearing in
this new bilingual edition.
Bloomsbury Review listed the
original English-only edition as
one of their fifteen all-time
favorite children's books. Our
bilingual edition has all the
original stories as they have
evolved in the last twenty years
of Joe's storytelling. It also
has new illustrations by
award-winning artist Antonio
Castro. Storytellers have been
telling these stories in the
villages of New Mexico since the
Spanish first came to the New
World over four hundred years
ago, but Joe always adds his own
nuances for modern audiences.
The tales are full of magic and
fun. In the title story, for
instance, a very clever woman
saves her silly husband from a
band of robbers. She makes the
old man believe it snowed
tortillas during the night! In
another story, a young boy
gladly gives up all of his wages
for good advice. His parents
think he is a fool, but the good
advice leads to wealth and a
royal marriage. The enchantment
continues in story after story-a
clever thief tricks a king for
his kingdom and a prince finds
his beloved in a house full of
wicked step-sisters. And of
course, we listen again to the
ancient tale of the weeping
woman, La Llorona, who still
searches for her drowned
children along the
riverbanks.160pp, 6 x 9, ages 9
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LA Tortilleria/the Tortilla Factory
A song of
thanksgiving for the food that
spring from the earth and the
hands that sow the seed and
shape the tortilla. 1994, 28pp,
8.5 x 11, Ages 4-8. ABA Pick of
the List. Paperback Product
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Tortillas and Lullabies/Tortillas Y Cancioncitas
Written in English and
Spanish, this companion to Reiser's
"Cherry Pies and Lullabies" tells
another story of family love--this time
within a Costa Rican culture.
Extraordinary folk-art paintings by
"Corazones Valientes", an organization
of Costa Rican women artists, accompany
the tale. Full color. |
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The
Tortilla Cat
When each of Dr. Romero's
five children becomes ill with the same
fever that took his dear wife, the
doctor is not able to help them. Yet
each child is quickly cured when a
little cat comes in the night offering
tortillas and singing. Full color. |
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La Fiesta de Las Tortillas
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Big Moon Tortilla
When Marta loses
her homework and breaks her
glasses on her way to her
grandmother's cookhouse to eat
her tortillas, Grandmother knows
just the perfect words from
Tohono O'Odham tradition to make
her smile once more.
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Runaway
Tortilla
In Texas, Tia
Lupe and Tio Jose make the best
tortillas - so light that the cowboys
say they just might jump right out of
the griddle. One day, a tortilla does
exactly that. Mocking her pursuers, the
tortilla runs through the desert,
encountering two horned toads, three
donkeys, four jackrabbits, five
rattlesnakes, and six buckaroos. She
dodges them all, but is finally
outwitted by Senor Coyote in this
flavorful twist on the classic tale "The
Gingerbread Man."
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Amalia y sus primeras tortillas
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Tortilla Quilt
Format: Paperback,
52pp |
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