Tamalitos: Un Poema Para Cocinar / A Cooking Poem

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In this bilingual cooking poem for young children, Jorge Argueta encourages more creativity and fun in the kitchen as he describes how to make tamalitos from corn masa and cheese, wrapped in cornhusks. The book opens with an homage to corn: white, yellow, blue, purple, red and black. In Maya mythology the first men and women are even said to be made of corn. It has been an important food for people in Central America for centuries, and one of the most delicious things you can make using corn mas

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Product # P0133-G
Author Jorge Argueta
Grade Level K-3
Interest Level K-2
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Guided Reading Level O
Publisher Grove Press