By Gary Soto
Illustrated by Ed Martinez
Multicultural
This is the story about Maria who was so exited to be helping his mom make Tamales. Her mother told her that she was doing a good job so she felt like a big person and started working even harder at it. The only thing that she wanted now was to be able to wear her mother's ring. Her mom left it on the counter top so Maria put it on her thumb. She kept on meaning the maza for the tamales and apparently at one point she lost the ring. They made the Tamales and after they were ready she realized that share had lost her mother's ring. She and her cousins went to the kitchen and started to eat the tamales with the hope of finding good the ring. After they ate all the Tamales and didn't find the ring, Maria knew she had to tell her mom. To her surprise her mom had the ring and everything turned out to be okay. They made another batch of Tamales and everything was fine.
I would use this book in my class room to introduce the students to a different culture and language. I would read it aloud and translate it to English while at the same time have them practice saying some words in Spanish. This book would be appropriate from Kindergarten through 3rd grade.
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