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Sopa de frijoles / Bean Soup: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem
32 pp.
| Groundwood/Tigrillo |
April, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-88899-881-1$18.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Rafael Yockteng.
This book takes a simple recipe, and through poetic metaphor, turns it into a celebration. Readers can actually make the soup by following the story (steps requiring adult assistance are marked); cheerful, cleanly composed illustrations interpret some of the stages. The Spanish and English versions of the text both use the magic of language to evoke the mystery of cooking.