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Growing Up with Tamales/Los Tamales de Ana
by
Gwendolyn Zepeda (Goodreads Author)
Young Adult Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition translated from the Spanish by Gabriela Baeza Ventura. Illustrated by April Ward. Ana envies her elder sibling and wishes she could do what Lidia does: put just the right amount of meat inside the tamales and roll them up; steam the tamales without scalding herself with the hot, hot steam; chop and cook the meat...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
May 31st 2008
by Pinata Books
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Melanie
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children-s-literature,
picture-book,
food,
cooking,
hispanic-americans,
multicultural,
families,
holidays,
christmas,
sisters,
dreams
Ana is six and her sister Lidia is eight. When the family makes tamales for Christmas, Ana is able to mix the dough. But because Lidia is eight, she gets to spread the dough on the corn husks. Ana dreams about when she is eight and the things she will be able to do, including spreading the dough on the husks.
Ana continues to dream throughout the book about the things she will do as she gets older. This concludes with owning her own tamale factory. Her sister can work for her if she wan...more
Ana continues to dream throughout the book about the things she will do as she gets older. This concludes with owning her own tamale factory. Her sister can work for her if she wan...more
I rated this book 5 stars, partially because I wrote it myself :), but mostly because it's my favorite book to read to students.
It tells the story of Ana, who makes tamales every Christmas with her family. Every year, no matter what level tamale-making task Ana has mastered, her older sister gets to do the more "important" task.
Ana imagines what will happen as she gets older, in terms of the tamale assembly line and activities in the rest of her life. At the end...more
It tells the story of Ana, who makes tamales every Christmas with her family. Every year, no matter what level tamale-making task Ana has mastered, her older sister gets to do the more "important" task.
Ana imagines what will happen as she gets older, in terms of the tamale assembly line and activities in the rest of her life. At the end...more
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Loved it! Loved it! This is a beautiful book that all children will love. My children love to hear about Ana and counting how old she'll be and what she'll do next.
This was a really great book for children. I loved how it was both in English and Spanish. My children loved it too.
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Gwendolyn Zepeda was born in Houston, Texas in 1971 and attended the University of Texas at Austin. She began her writing career on the Web in 1997, with her long-running site gwendolynzepeda.com and as one of the founding writers of entertainment site Television Without Pity. Her first book was a short-story collection called To the Last Man I Slept with and All the Jerks Just Like Him (Arte Públ...more
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