First Published – Canada – Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101

Latin America

El Salvador

Cover for Guacamole featuring an illustration of an avocado with a window with a bird perched on it in the avocado with three children looking out of it. There are limes and a bowl with a red floral pattern filled with cilantro next to the avocado on a table with a red picnic tablecloth on it. The illustration os surrounded by a circled frame with two pieces of tape appearing to adjoin it to the cover which is a gradient of teal hues. There is a dark green line bordering the entire cover outside of those elements.

Guacamole: A Cooking Poem

By Jorge Argueta, Elisa Amado, Margarita Sada (Illustrator)

Guacamole: Un poema para cocinar /A Cooking Poem (Bilingual Cooking Poems). Jorge Argueta. Translated from the Spanish by Elisa Amado. Illustrated by Margarita Sada. Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo/House of Anansi Press, 2016, c2012. ISBN 9781554988884. 32 p. (Ages 5-8). Poetry.

A recipe/poem for guacamole that will get kids excited about cooking other foods too! This is the third book in the “Bilingual Cooking Poems” series, which currently numbers five. Recipient of the International Latino Book Award, Jorge Argueta has also won many more awards for his books, which have been placed on the Américas Award Commended List, the USBBY Outstanding International Books List, Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Books, and the Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices. Though Argueta is a Pipil Nahua Indian and spent much of his life in El Salvador, he now lives in California. [jm]

Tags:

Middle Grade

Bilingual

Translations - Spanish

First Published - Canada

Authors - El Salvador

Illustrators - Mexico

Series Title - Bilingual Cooking Poems