Growing Up with Tamales / Los Tamales de Ana (Hardcover w/CD) (English and Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Gwendolyn Zepeda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0981568696 ISBN 13: 9780981568690

Publisher: Art Pr, 2009

Synopsis

This sweet and funny story about sibling rivalry and the tradition of making tamales is told from the perspective of Ana, who yearns to be like her big sister. Stage actress Gabriella Cavallero's voice brings the rhythmic prose to life with her tenderhearted reading in flawless English and Spanish.

Illustrated by April Ward. Read by Gabriela Cavallero

About this title

About the Author:

GWENDOLYN ZEPEDA is the author of a collection of short prose, To the Last Man I Slept with and All the Jerks Just Like Him (Arte Publico Press, 2004), and a novel, Houston, We Have a Problema (Solana, 2009).Her essays have appeared on HipMama magazine's site and others.She currently resides in Houston with her three sons.

APRIL WARD is the illustrator of Butterflies on Carmen Street / Mariposas en la calle Carmen (Pinata Books, 2007) and Juan and the Chupacabras / Juan y el Chupacabras (Pinata Books, 2006). Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and has been working in children's book publishing ever since. She currently lives in San Diego, California.

From AudioFile:

Ana, una niña de seis años, está celosa de Linda, su hermana mayor, porque mientras preparan los tamales de navidad Linda puede embarrar la masa en las hojas de maíz. A su edad, solo dejan que Ana haga la tarea más sencilla, mezclar la masa. En este audiolibro bilingúe Gabriela Cavallero trasmite los deseos y pensamientos inocentes de Ana a través de varios cumpleaños consecutivos. En sus sueños, Ana no sólo se ve preparando tamales, pero también cuidando a los niños y poniendo gasolina en el tanque del coche de su mamá. A lo largo del libro, se oye cómo su papel en la preparación de los tamales se pone más complicado y desafiante. La actuación de Cavallero conlleva de manera experta la competición afectuosa de Ana con su hermana. Pausas apropiadas y la repetición de palabras ayudarán a los lectores jóvenes a leer junto con las dos versiones del audiolibro. K.P., L.R.P., trans. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION]--Six-year-old Ana is envious of Linda, her 8-year-old sister, because she's allowed to spread the dough on the corn husks while preparing the Christmas tamales, a Mexican holiday tradition with Aztec origins. Ana is relegated to the simplest task, mixing the dough. In this bilingual audiobook, Gabriela Cavallero portrays Ana's innocent desires and musings on successive birthdays as her part in preparing the tamales grows more complex and challenging. In her dreams, Ana even imagines herself being trusted not only to cook tamales but to babysit and even pump gas into her mother's car. Cavallero's performance expertly captures Ana's affectionate competition with her sister. Word repetition and appropriate pauses for emphasis will encourage the young listener to read along with the English and Spanish tracks. K.P. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Art Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0981568696
• ISBN 13: 9780981568690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: April Ward