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Title: Tortillitas para mamá by Margot C. Griego, Barbara Cooney, Betsy L. Bucks, Sharon S. Gilbert, Laurel H. Kimball ISBN: 0-8050-0317-7 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 January, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Has some beautiful, memorable verses - and I should know!
Comment: A few reviewers have blasted this book for a couple of verses that contain ideas no longer acceptable in our society- like the Dad getting the good tortillas and the Mother the burnt ones. I agree that this is something to consider. I want to add, though, that my Mother read to me from this book when I was a child and it in no way ingrained these ideas into my young mind. As a young girl, in fact, this was one of my favorite books. Many of the other verses in Tortillas para mama are so beautiful that I think it would be a shame not to recommend it. There is one about the moon eating prickly pears (ahi viene la luna comiendo tuna) and another about a mother being an angel that I can recite to this day. If you are concerned about the questionable lines (and I reiterate that there are only a couple!), I would suggest you either leave those poems out when you read or else talk to your children about what those lines mean and how things have changed since they were written. It might end up being very constructive!
Rating: 1
Summary: Sorry I Bought This One
Comment: I won't be reading this book to my daughter. The idea of beating a child for getting her dress dirty is not one I want to impart to my child. Very sad!
Rating: 1
Summary: A horrible, sexist book
Comment: I am an education student and a parent, I purchased this book for a school project on multi-cultural literature. When I received it I was horrified at some of the poems!!! Many of the poems in this book demean women. One poem entitled "Chiquita Bonita" says that if a girl gets her clothing dirty her mother will beat her, another poem "Little Tortillas" says that the good tortillas go to papa and the burnt ones go to mama. I am all for the concept of introducing small children to many cultures and having two languages in one book but there are many books out their that do it much better than this one. (May I suggest Salsa by Lillian Colon-Vila and Roberta Collier-Morales)
Tortillas Para Mama presents a very negative view of Hispanic culture and I am not quite sure how it ever got published reading it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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Title: Arroz con leche: canciones y ritmos populares de América Latina by Lulu Delacre ISBN: 0590418866 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: "De Colores" and Other Latin-American Folk Songs for Children by Jose-Luis Orozco, Elisa Kleven ISBN: 0525452605 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Las nanas de abuelita / Grandmother's Nursery Rhymes by Nelly Palacio Jaramillo, Elivia ISBN: 0805046445 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Diez deditos = 10 Little Fingers & Other Play Rhymes and Action Songs from Latin America by Jose-Luis Orozco, Elisa Kleven ISBN: 0525457364 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Los Pollitos Dicen / The Baby Chicks Sing by Kay Chorao, Jill Syverson-Stork, Nancy Abraham Hall ISBN: 0316338524 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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