Tamalitos: Un Poema Para Cocinar: Tamalitos: A Cooking Poem (Bilingual Cooking Poems Bilingual English/Spanish)

by Jorge Argueta (Author)

Tamalitos: Un Poema Para Cocinar: Tamalitos: A Cooking Poem (Bilingual Cooking Poems Bilingual English/Spanish)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

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 masa and husks are tamalitos, or little tamales.

In simple poetic language, Argueta shows young cooks how to mix and knead the dough before dropping a spoonful into a cornhusk, wrapping it up and then steaming the little package. He once again makes cooking a full sensory experience, including beating on a pot like a drum, dancing the corn dance, delighting in the smell of corn masa ... And at the end, he suggests inviting the whole family to come and enjoy the delicious tamalitos "made of corn with love."

Domi's vivid paintings, featuring a sister and her little brother making tamalitos together, are a perfect accompaniment to the colorful text.

En este poema de cocina bilingüe para niños pequeños, Jorge Argueta fomenta más creatividad y diversión en la cocina mientras describe cómo hacer tamalitos con masa de maíz y queso, envueltos en hojas de maíz.


El libro comienza con un homenaje al maíz: blanco, amarillo, azul, morado, rojo y negro. En la mitología maya incluso se dice que los primeros hombres y mujeres estaban hechos de maíz. Ha sido un alimento importante para la gente de Centroamérica durante siglos, y una de las cosas más deliciosas que puedes hacer con masa y hojas de maíz son los tamalitos o pequeños tamales.


En un lenguaje poético sencillo, Argueta muestra a jóvenes cocineros cómo mezclar y amasar la masa antes de verter una cucharada en una hoja de maíz, envolverla y luego cocinar al vapor el paquetito. Una vez más hace de la cocina una experiencia sensorial completa, incluyendo golpear una olla a modo de tambor, bailar la danza del maíz, deleitarse con el olor de la masa de maíz… Y al finalizar, sugiere invitar a toda la familia a venir a disfrutar del Deliciosos tamalitos “hechos de maíz con amor”. Las vívidas pinturas de Domi, que muestran a una hermana y su hermano pequeño haciendo tamalitos juntos, son un acompañamiento perfecto para el colorido texto.

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Jorge Argueta
Jorge Argueta is an award-winning author of picture books and poetry for young children. He has won the International Latino Book Award, the Américas Book Award, the NAPPA Gold Award and the Independent Publisher Book Award for Multicultural Fiction for Juveniles. His books have also been named to the Américas Award Commended List, the USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List, Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Books and the Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices. A native Salvadoran and Pipil Nahua Indian, Jorge spent much of his life in rural El Salvador. He now lives in San Francisco, California.

Duncan Tonatiuh is an author and illustrator of several highly acclaimed books for young readers, including The Princess and the Warrior, Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote, Dear Primo and Diego Rivera. He won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Separate Is Never Equal, and Funny Bones was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book. Other awards include the Pura Belpré Illustration Award and the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, and commendations from the Américas Award and Notable Books for a Global Society. He lives in San Miguel Allende, Mexico.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781773060910
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Publication date
September 20, 2017
Series
Bilingual Cooking Poems
BISAC categories
JNF014000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Cooking & Food
Library of Congress categories
Picture books
Spanish language materials
Bilingual
Poetry
Cookbooks
Cooking
Tamales
Children's poetry, Salvadoran
Stuffed foods (Cooking)

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