Old Clothes for Dinner?! (English With Some Spanish)

by Nathalie Alonso (Author) Natalia Rojas Castro (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

Magaly enjoys the yummy Cuban food her Abuela has been cooking since arriving from Havana, but when Magaly's sweater goes missing, she discovers that Abuela is making ropa vieja for dinner.

Old clothes for dinner? Yuck! Magaly needs to hide the rest of her clothes before her family eats them up.

Endnotes feature other imaginative names of food around the world, facts about Cuba, Spanish vocabulary, and two delicious recipes for ropa vieja and arroz con leche.

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A sweet family story about building understanding across generations.

Nathalie Alonso
Nathalie Alonso is a Cuban American bilingual writer and journalist based in New York City. A seasoned baseball reporter, her writing has appeared in National Geographic, Outside, and Refinery29, among other outlets. She is currently a reporter and producer at MLB.com's Spanish-language sister site, LasMayores.com.

Rudy Gutierrez is an artist and children's book illustrator. He received the Pura Belpre Honor for Illustration for his work on Papa and Me by Arthur Dorros, a Caldecott Honor for Double Bass Blues by Andrea J. Loney, and the Américas Book Award for Pelé, King of Soccer by Monica Brown, among many other honors. Rudy teaches illustration at the Pratt Institute School of Design in New York City
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9798888590683
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Barefoot Books
Publication date
March 12, 2024
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV013030 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
JUV050000 - Juvenile Fiction | Cooking & Food
JUV011030 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
Library of Congress categories
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