Material appropriate for primary age groups
As they prepare to make the traditional, pillowy bread called sopaipilla, Christina’s grandmother tells about the time her great-grandfather, aided by a scarecrow, brought an end to a drought and, in the process, helped make the first sopaipilla.
Marcy and Miss Rosa start a campaign to clean up an empty lot and turn it into a community garden.
Chave, a grown woman, recalls her childhood trips from her border home in Brownsville, TX, to her grandparents’ ranch in northern Mexico. Large, bright drawings show young Chave, her brother, and their cousins racing around the ranch, sliding down dirt hills, herding baby goats, riding wooden barrels, and listening to a ranch hand tell stories.
A wordless story about the activities of a family one night when no one can sleep.
While sharing stories of their Mexican-American family’s past, a father gives his young son the guitar he received from his own father.
When Tio Manuel brings home a very special piata for Gabriel’s birthday party, his sister Magda figures out an ingenious way to preserve it and still make the party guests happy.
When a treasured pinata is threatened, little Lupita discovers that she is big enough to help her mother.
A Chinese-American grandmother relates family and cultural history from her life in Guangzhou, China to her grandchildren
While learning to make tortillas on her seventh birthday, Magda tries to make perfectly round ones like those made by her grandmother but instead creates a variety of wonderful shapes.
An Hispanic grandmother relates family and cultural history to her granddaughter in her San Francisco, California, apartment as she tells of growing up in New Mexico.