La Fiesta de Las Tortillas: The Fiesta of The Tortillas (Bilingual English/Spanish)

by Jorge Argueta (Author) Maria J Alvarez (Illustrator)

La Fiesta de Las Tortillas: The Fiesta of The Tortillas (Bilingual English/Spanish)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Bilingual Books

The author remembers the day on which the Spirit of the Corn visited the restaurant that his family owned in El Salvador. The narration is full of suspense and is impregnated with the delicious scents that surrounded the kitchen and that remain intact in the memory and the heart of the author from his childhood.

El autor recuerda el da en que el espritu del maz visit el restaurante que su familia tena en El Salvador. La narracin est llena de suspenso e impregnada de los deliciosos aromas que salan de la cocina y que permanecen intactos en la memoria y en el corazn del autor desde su infancia.

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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 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
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781631138713
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Loqueleo
Publication date
April 20, 2016
Series
Bilingual Books
BISAC categories
JUV011030 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
JUV012070 - Juvenile Fiction | Legends, Myths, Fables | Caribbean & Latin American
Library of Congress categories
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