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

by Jorge Argueta (Author) Margarita Sada (Illustrator)

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

Guacamole originated in Mexico with the Aztecs and has long been popular in North America, especially in recent years due to the many health benefits of avocados.

This version of the recipe is easy to make, calling for just avocados, limes, cilantro and salt. A little girl dons her apron, singing and dancing around the kitchen as she shows us what to do.

Poet Jorge Argueta sees beauty, magic and fun in everything around him avocados are like green precious stones, salt falls like rain, cilantro looks like a little tree and the spoon that scoops the avocado from its skin is like a tractor.


El guacamole se originó en México con los aztecas y ha sido popular durante mucho tiempo en América del Norte, especialmente en los últimos años debido a los muchos beneficios para la salud de los aguacates.

Esta versión de la receta es fácil de hacer y requiere solo aguacates, limas, cilantro y sal. Una niña pequeña se pone el delantal, canta y baila por la cocina mientras nos muestra qué hacer.

El poeta Jorge Argueta ve belleza, magia y diversión en todo lo que lo rodea, los aguacates son como piedras preciosas verdes, la sal cae como lluvia, el cilantro parece un arbolito y la cuchara que saca el aguacate de su piel es como un tractor.

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Review quotes

"This fanciful, imaginative narrative is as much poetry as it is a recipe." — School Library Journal

"Sada's digitally enhanced oil paintings create bold contrasts with their festive colors—readers will practically be able to taste the 'sour river of lime'." — Publishers Weekly

"A bilingual treat." — Kirkus Reviews
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 Daly City, California.

Margarita Sada is a well-known Mexican artist who has illustrated other stories that derive from Yoruba mythology, such as the award-winning Venir del Mar by Jose Alberto Caban. Many of her books have been selected for Mexico's SEP Libros del Rincon program, which provides books to school children throughout the country. She lives in Mexico City.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781554988884
Lexile Measure
590
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Publication date
March 20, 2016
Series
Bilingual Cooking Poems
BISAC categories
JNF014000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Cooking & Food
Library of Congress categories
Poetry
Juvenile works
Cooking
Children's poetry, Salvadoran
Guacamole

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