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  • Old Clothes for Dinner?!

Old Clothes for Dinner?!

Author
Nathalie Alonso
Illustrator
Natalia Rojas Castro
Publication Date
March 12, 2024
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
Translanguaging
Old Clothes for Dinner?!
Only 3 copies currently available
Description

Spanish edition also available.

Magaly enjoys the yummy Cuban food her Abuela has been cooking since arriving from Havana, but when Magaly's sweater goes missing, she discovers that Abuela is making ropa vieja for dinner.

Old clothes for dinner? Yuck! Magaly needs to hide the rest of her clothes before her family eats them up.

Endnotes feature other imaginative names of food around the world, facts about Cuba, Spanish vocabulary, and two delicious recipes for ropa vieja and arroz con leche.

Publication date
March 12, 2024
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9798888590690
Publisher
Barefoot Books
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV013030 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
JUV050000 - Juvenile Fiction | Cooking & Food
JUV011030 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino

Kirkus

A sweet family story about building understanding across generations.

Nathalie Alonso
Nathalie Alonso is a Cuban American bilingual writer and journalist based in New York City. A seasoned baseball reporter, her writing has appeared in National Geographic, Outside, and Refinery29, among other outlets. She is currently a reporter and producer at MLB.com's Spanish-language sister site, LasMayores.com.

Rudy Gutierrez is an artist and children's book illustrator. He received the Pura Belpre Honor for Illustration for his work on Papa and Me by Arthur Dorros, a Caldecott Honor for Double Bass Blues by Andrea J. Loney, and the Américas Book Award for Pelé, King of Soccer by Monica Brown, among many other honors. Rudy teaches illustration at the Pratt Institute School of Design in New York City
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