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Kids of all ages are always asking Joe Hayes, «How can it snow tortillas?» Well, now they’ll know where to find the answer—at long last, Joe’s signature book The Day It Snowed Tortillas is appearing in this new bilingual edition. Bloomsbury Review listed the original English-only edition as one of their fifteen all-time favorite children’s books. Our bilingual edition has all the original stories as they have evolved in the last twenty years of Joe’s storytelling. It also has new illustrations by award-winning artist Antonio Castro. Storytellers have been telling these stories in the villages of New Mexico since the Spanish first came to the New World over four hundred years ago, but Joe always adds his own nuances for modern audiences. The tales are full of magic and fun. In the title story, for instance, a very clever woman saves her silly husband from a band of robbers. She makes the old man believe it snowed tortillas during the night! In another story, a young boy gladly gives up all of his wages for good advice. His parents think he is a fool, but the good advice leads to wealth and a royal marriage. The enchantment continues in story after story—a clever thief tricks a king for his kingdom and a prince finds his beloved in a house full of wicked step-sisters. And of course, we listen again to the ancient tale of the weeping woman, La Llorona, who still searches for her drowned children along the riverbanks. Lectores de todas las edades se deleitaran con estos cuentos magicos. Por ejemplo, en la historia del titulo, una mujer muy astuta salva a su tonto esposo de una banda de rateros. ?Le hace creer al viejo hombre que durante la noche nevaron tortillas! En otra historia, un nino con gusto intercambia todo su salario por un buen consejo. Sus padres creen que fue un tonto, pero el consejo lo lleva a tener riquezas y un matrimonio real. El encanto continua cuento a cuento: un ingenioso ratero engana a un rey por su reino y un principe encuentra a su amada en una casa llena de hermanastras malvadas. Y claro, volvemos a escuchar la antigua historia de La Llorona que sigue buscando a sus hijos a la orilla del rio.

1. Best-selling/award-winning author (Caldecott Honor)/illustrator (Washington State Book Award) duo’s first collaboration.<BR> 2. Humorous fractured fairy tale of THE GINGERBREAD MAN with a Southwest twist.<BR> 3. Lots of Spanish words spice up the text. Author has received numerous requests from educators and fans across the United States for this book. It is popular with educators because of its Spanish vocabulary and fractured fairy-tale content.<BR> 4. Original version (with different illustrator published by Winslow Press in 2000 978-1890817183.)<BR> 5. Southwest setting and natural history content includes horny toads, jackrabbits, cacti, cowboys.<BR> 6. Humorous and fun to read-aloud like Skippyjon Jones books.<BR>

This is a bilingual book for kids and dogs and even their parents. Like all kids, Little Diego and his big sister Gabriela argue over their new dog Sofie. She belongs to me, says Diego. No, she&rsquo;s mine, says Gabriela. It&rsquo;s only when Sofie gets really sick that they find out who their tortilla-loving pup really belongs to. Once again, Benjamin Alire S&aacute;enz shows he understands the chemistry and dynamics of family, this time with a dog stirring up the recipe. The illustrations for The Dog Who Loved Tortillas are by Geronimo Garcia, who created the characters of Little Diego and Gabriela first introduced in S&aacute;enz&rsquo;s early best-selling title A Gift from Pap&aacute; Diego (sixty thousand copies in print). Benjamin Alire S&aacute;enz received three starred Publishers Weekly reviews in 2008&mdash;one for his young adult novel He Forgot to Say Goodbye (Simon &amp; Schuster) and two for his illustrated book A Perfect Season for Dreaming (Cinco Puntos Press). Long at the forefront of the emerging Latino literature in the United States, he has received both the Wallace Stegner and Lannan fellowships, and he is a recipient of the American Book Award. His young adult novel Sammy &amp; Juliana in Hollywood was named one of the Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults in 2005. Saenz lives in El Paso, Texas. Geronimo Garcia is a highly successful and internationally recognized graphic designer. He lives in El Paso, Texas.