Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Provides a poetic recipe for guacamole that not only offers instructions for making the appetizer but highlights the ways in which working with food can be fun in itself.

Following on the success of Sopa de frijoles / Bean Soup and Arroz con leche / Rice Pudding is Jorge Argueta’s third book in our bilingual cooking poem series — Guacamole — with very cute, imaginative illustrations by Margarita Sada.Guacamole originated in Mexico with the Aztecs and has long been popular in North America, especially in recent years due to the many health benefits of avocados. This version of the recipe is easy to make, calling for just avocados, limes, cilantro and salt. A little girl chef dons her apron, singing and dancing around the kitchen as she shows us what to do. Argueta’s gift in seeing beauty, magic and fun in everything around him makes this book a treasure — avocados are like green precious stones, salt falls like rain, cilantro looks like a little tree and the spoon that scoops the avocado from its skin is like an excavating tractor.As in the previous cooking poems, Guacamole conveys the fun and pleasure of making something delicious and healthy to eat for people you really love. A great book for families to enjoy together.

Product Description: Five-year-old Luna isn't sure she wants to go school. For all she knows, there might be monsters there. But when her loving parents assure her that she'll have a wonderful time playing and learning, she agrees to give school a try...read more

A noted Salvadorian author reminisces about the day in which the Spirit of the Corn visited the tiny family-owned restaurant, located in front of a bus terminal and known for its delicious food.

Product Description: For people who have left their homeland for a new country, comfort foods from home take on a huge emotional importance. This delightful poem teaches readers young and old how to make a heartwarming, tummy-filling black bean soup, from gathering the beans, onions, and garlic to taking little pebbles out of the beans to letting them simmer till the luscious smell indicates it’s time for supper...read more

Having left their homeland on foot and moved to California as refugees many years ago, Alfredito and his family are excited about their upcoming flight to El Salvador where they plan to celebrate Christmas on their native soil with their many relatives and dearest friends.

Poems in Spanish and English describe the author's boyhood as a refugee from rural El Salvador living in San Francisco, where he had to cope with a new language, a new culture, and a very different way of life.

Tetl's journey from self-doubt to proud acceptance of his Nahuatl heritage is told in a series of powerful poems.

Product Description: A small, tired, and ill speckled hen that flies in front of her window on a rainy morning, arouses in Natalia nostalgia for her grandfather, who stayed in El Salvador. She then is determined to save the hen and moves heaven and earth to achieve it.

Zipitio, a mythical figure from Central American tradition who hides along the river except when he falls in love, woos Rufina Perez, a young Nahua girl of the Pipil people in El Salvador, in a tale based on Pipil folklore.

Xochitl and her family, newly arrived in San Francisco from El Salvador, create a beautiful plant nursery in place of the garbage heap behind their apartment, and celebrate with their friends and neighbors.

Enhanced with rich illustrations, a young boy uses his imagination to dream of a magical place that is filled with wonderful trees, winding rivers, floating clouds, and twinkling stars.

Enhanced with rich illustrations, a young boy uses his imagination to dream of a magical place that is filled with wonderful trees, winding rivers, floating clouds, and twinkling stars.

Poems in Spanish and English describe the author's boyhood as a refugee from rural El Salvador living in San Francisco, where he had to cope with a new language, a new culture, and a very different way of life.