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Old Clothes for Dinner?!

Old Clothes for Dinner?!
by Nathalie Alonso (Author) and Natalia Rojas Castro (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Magaly loves the yummy Cuban food her Abuela has been cooking since arriving from Havana, but when Magaly’s sweater goes missing, she discovers that Abuela is making ropa vieja for dinner. Old clothes for dinner? Yuck! Now Magaly must hide the rest of her clothes before her family eats them up. Endnotes feature other imaginative names of food around the world, facts about Cuba, Spanish vocabulary, and recipes for ropa vieja and arroz con leche.

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Night Stories: Folktales from Latin America

Night Stories: Folktales from Latin America: A TOON Graphic
by Liniers (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Discover classic (and spooky) folktales from across Latin America: the Iara, a mermaid (or a pink dolphin?) who lures young men to her underwater domain in the Amazon basin; La Lechuza, an enormous owl with the face of a woman, who terrorizes people who venture out after dark (a legend found in Mexico, Chile, and Uruguay); and La Luz Mala, a spooky, evanescent light that menaces gauchos and other travelers on the Argentine pampas. This 48-page comic also includes an introduction by David Bowles, the ecological, cultural, and historical background of these tales, and a bibliography.

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Also available in Spanish as Cuentos de noche: Relatos de Latinoamérica

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