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  • The Day It Snowed Tortillas: El Dia Que Nevaron Tortillas (Bilingual English/Spanish)

The Day It Snowed Tortillas: El Dia Que Nevaron Tortillas
(Bilingual English/Spanish)

Author
Illustrator
Antonio Castro L
Publication Date
October 01, 2003
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
Spanish
The Day It Snowed Tortillas:  El Dia Que Nevaron Tortillas (Bilingual English/Spanish)

Description

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. 

Our bilingual edition has all the original stories as they have evolved in the last twenty years of Joe's storytelling. 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. 

Lectores de todas las edades se deleitarán con estos cuentos mágicos. Por ejemplo, en la historia del titulo.

Una mujer muy astuta salva a su tonto esposo de una banda de rateros. ¡Le hace creer al viejo hombre que durante la noche nevaron tortillas! En otra historia, un niño con gusto intercambia todo su salario por un buen consejo. Sus padres creen que fue un tonto, pero el consejo lo lleva a tener riquezas y un matrimonio real. 

Publication date
October 01, 2003
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780938317760
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV012020 - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore | Country & Ethnic - General
JUV022000 - Juvenile Fiction | Legends, Myths, & Fables | General
JUV011030 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
Library of Congress categories
Spanish language materials
Bilingual
Folklore
Tales
New Mexico

School Library Journal

Gr 4 Up-A master storyteller sets down 10 tales told in New Mexico. In the title story, a clever wife diverts some thieves who are after her dim-witted husband, thus assuring the couple's prosperity. In a cumulative tale, a little ant escapes being stuck forever in the cold under a large snowflake by enlisting help from tiny cousin flea. The stories are well told, rhythmic, and spellbinding, both in English and in the colloquial Spanish. Hayes is a fine translator, and these stories are a testament to his expert execution of this exacting art. The format indicates that the book is designed more for the storyteller than for the reader. A paragraph of English text alternates with the same paragraph in Spanish. This makes for choppy reading, but is a natural and helpful division if the tale is being memorized. Each story begins with a full-page pencil drawing. Photographic in detail, Castro L.'s art extends the stories a bit. Notes to the stories give history as well as the Arne-Thompson numbers for the tale type. Similar in content to Carmen Diana Dearden's Little Book of Latin American Folktales (Groundwood, 2003), Hayes's work is the better told of the two. It could be used alongside Mary-Joan Gerson's excellent Fiesta Femenina (Barefoot, 2001) for a storytime that points out similarities and differences in Mexican and New Mexican folktales. An excellent purchase for storytelling librarians or for schools with storytelling clubs. Copyright 2004 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
Joe Hayes

Joe Hayes is one of America's premier storytellers. He grew up in a small town in southern Arizona and developed a lifelong interest in the cultures and creatures of the region. As Hayes got older, he began reading the work of folklorists and anthropologists and gathering the old stories from the Southwest region. His books for young readers have received numerous awards. He lives in New Mexico.

Antonio Castro L.was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and has lived in the Juarez-El Paso area for most of his life.He was awarded a prestigious Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor for his illustrations inMy Tata's Remedies/Los remedios de mi tata.He has also illustrated several other picture books for Cinco Puntos Press, includingThe Gum Chewing RattlerandMy Pet Rattlesnake.