Growing Up with Tamales/Los Tamales de Ana - Hardcover

Zepeda, Gwendolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558854932 ISBN 13: 9781558854932

Publisher: Pinata Books, 2008

Synopsis

My name is Ana. Every year, my family makes tamales for Christmas. This year, I am six, so I get to mix the dough, which is made of cornmeal. My sister Lidia is eight, so she gets to spread the dough on the corn husk leaves. I wish I was eight, so that my hands would be big enough to spread the dough just right--not too thick and not too thin. And so the years pass, and Ana turns eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen. But every year, big sister Lidia is always two years older. Ana envies her elder sibling and wishes she could do what Lidia does: put just the right amount of meat inside the tamales and roll them up; steam the tamales without scalding herself with the hot, hot steam; chop and cook the meat for the tamales without cutting or burning her hands. When she turns eighteen, though, Ana knows she will keep making tamales and she will be able to do all of the steps herself in her very own factory. When Christmas comes around, Ana will deliver tamales to all of her customers around the world, in delivery trucks that say Ana's Tamales. And maybe Ana will even let Lidia work for her. Gwendolyn Zepeda's rhythmic prose is combined with April Ward's bright illustrations to create an affectionate and amusing story about sibling relationships that introduces an important Hispanic holiday tradition -- making tamales!

About this title

About the Author:

Gwendolyn Zepeda lives in Houston with her three sons and her cat. When she was a little girl, she liked to read, play outside with her brothers, and help her aunt in the kitchen. She still likes to read and now she writes books. Growing Up with Tamales/Los tamales de Ana is her first book for kids.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pinata Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1558854932
• ISBN 13: 9781558854932
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Ward April