Tortillas and Lullabies/Tortillas y cancioncitas: Bilingual English-Spanish (Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Reiser, Lynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688146287 ISBN 13: 9780688146283

Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol, 1998

Synopsis

A little girl basks in the everyday love of her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother in this bilingual (English and Spanish) and multigenerational picture book celebration.

“A vibrantly illustrated, bilingual picture book that captures the rhythms of life.”— Kirkus Reviews

Illustrated by “Corazones Valientes,” six women artists from Costa Rica working together, this book celebrates four generations of women in one family. From great-grandmother to grandmother to mother to daughter, each shows love in a traditional way—in cooking tortillas, doing laundry, and giving flowers—and through increasingly modern methods as the years pass. But one thing never changes: the lullaby they sing, and the love they all have for one another. Written in both English and Spanish, this is a tribute to families and everyday love. “The timeless quality of maternal love is evident throughout.”—School Library Journal

Supports the Common Core State Standards

About this title

About the Author

Lynn Reiser is the creator of many acclaimed books for children, including the bilingual books Margaret and Margarita/Margarita y Margaret; Tortillas and Lullabies/Tortillas y cancioncitas; and The Lost Ball/La pelota perdida. Lynn Reiser lives in Connecticut.

Lynn Reiser es autora de varios libros infantiles aclamados, entre ellos los libros bilingües Margaret and Margarita/Margarita y Margaret; Tortillas and Lullabies/Tortillas y cancioncitas; y The Lost Ball/La pelota perdida. Lynn Reiser vive en Connecticut.

From the Back Cover

In English and in Spanish, Lynn Reiser presents the Central American companion book to her Cherry Pies and Lullabies. Again, four generations of mothers and daughters participate in family traditions-this time within a Costa Rican culture in which they share such things as tortilla making and flower gathering. Extraordinary folk-art painting by "Corazones Valientes," an organization of women artists in Costa Rica, accompany this universal and unforgettable story of family love.

Reviews

PreSchool-Grade 3?In this beautiful picture book, four everyday activities are depicted?making tortillas, gathering flowers, washing clothes, and singing a lullaby?as they are repeated by the women of a family over the last four generations. A little girl relates the simple text as her great-grandmother is shown making tortillas for her grandmother over an outdoor fire, her grandmother makes them for her mother in a farm kitchen with a cast-iron stove, her mother is shown cooking for her in a modern kitchen, and the child prepares paper tortillas for her doll on a toy stove. Each activity shares the refrain: "Every time it was the same, but different." The timeless quality of maternal love is evident throughout. Six Costa Rican women worked together to produce the striking acrylic folk-art paintings. With deeply saturated, glowing tones and a decidedly Central American style, the pictures enhance and extend the lyrical narrative, which is printed in English and in Spanish. The words and music of a traditional Spanish lullaby are appended. A lovely, nostalgic glimpse at Central American family life.?Denise E. Agosto, formerly at Midland County Public Library, TX
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

PLB 0-688-14629-5 In a companion to Cherry Pies and Lullabies (see review, above) Reiser infuses the often mundane actions of daily life with a sense of tradition and great love in a vibrantly illustrated, bilingual picture book that captures the rhythms of life. Told from the perspective of a young girl, the story opens with her great-grandmother making tortillas for the girl's grandmother, then moves through each successive generation to the present day, as the child makes tortillas for her doll. Gathering flowers, washing clothes, and singing lullabies are the other commonplace occurrences exalted by the mantras, which always conclude, ``Every time it was the same, but different.'' Placing the English text at top of every page and the corresponding Spanish text at the bottom creates a unique border for the lush, colorful illustrations, created by a consortium of Costa Rican women known as the ``Valiant Hearts.'' The bright, richly detailed pictures are almost overwhelming as they draw readers' eyes into the lives portrayed. Elements within each picture identify the eraone dress is washed in a stream, another in a washing machineand provide children with something of a searching game for details that demonstrate the passing of time. In both books, simple phrases and gentle repetition convey the enduring nature of love and the reassuring continuity of life. (Picture book. 4-8) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Ages 3^-7. Three generations of women (and a doll) give and receive tortillas, dresses, flowers, and lullabies. "My great-grandmother made tortillas for my grandmother; my grandmother made tortillas for my mother; my mother made tortillas for me; and I made tortillas for my doll." Each chapter ends with the phrase "Every time it was the same, but different." The words appear in English at the top of each page and in Spanish at the bottom. This gently celebrates the small daily gifts that mothers and daughters exchange, and by making the girl in each picture about the same age, Reiser shows how traditions continue generation after generation. The illustrations, attributed to Corazones Valientes in the book's imprint, were actually done collaboratively by six women who live in Costa Rica. They are painted in a folk art style, in rich colors glowing with intensity. Pair this with Betsy Hearne's Seven Brave Women. Susan Dove Lempke

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 0688146287
• ISBN 13: 9780688146283
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Corazones Valientes
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48