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Book Review AKA Backwards Book Recommendation

I love making book recommendations, but I think I like getting recommendations from others even more. I visited one of our district's Early Childhood Center (PreK & Head Start) campuses last week to take some books from my library that teachers had requested and to see if I could help them out a little since they don't have a librarian and their library is basically empty. While there, one of the bilingual teachers asked about my school's Spanish book section, which is actually pretty sad. She recommended a book called La Tortilla Corredora by Laura Herrera and illustrated by Scarlet Narciso.

I immediately grabbed it off Amazon. You see, I know a lot about books, but I don't know everything. And I certainly don't know enough about pictures books in Spanish. You know who knows about those? PreK Bilingual teachers. And if a PreK Bilingual teacher says La Tortilla Corredora is amazing, then I'm going to believe her. And I'm going to add that book to my library (and let her check it out first). 

Today, I got this in the mail. 

First of all, that tortilla is freaking hilarious. No wonder 4 year olds love this book. My Spanish isn't great, but I do live in Texas so I thought, "Let's try to read this thing. Out loud." I'm sure it was terrible, but it was fun. From my very limited Spanish, I can tell you this. A mom makes a tortilla for her kids. But the tortilla is not interested in being anyone's dinner. Much like the gingerbread boy, he runs away and encounters a series of animals intent on gobbling him up. Super cute and the illustrations cracked me up the entire time. 

A traditional story from Chile, the illustrations include native flora and fauna of the country and a glossary in the back of the book gives you more info about these. I'm pretty excited to add this to my collection at school, and do storytime with a tortilla puppet with my bilingual PreK class. 
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