Illustrated by Ed Martinez
Genre: Realistic Fiction (Multicultural Book)
Awards: None
Grade: PK-2
Maria and her mother were making tamales for Christmas Eve. They were mixing the masa with their hands preparing them and having a good time. Since they were using their hands, Maria's mom took of her shiny ring and left it on the table. Maria wanted to try it on so she did and forgot she had it on and continued to mix the masa. Later on the day, she realized she had left the ring and thought the ring was now in one of the tamales. Her and her cousins decided to eat all the tamales to try and look for the ring. When they could not find it, Maria went up to mom to tell her and saw the ring on her hand. She was so happy to see it, but since there were no more tamales, they had to make a new batch for everyone to eat.
I would use this book in my classroom to teach students about Latino Culture. Since I am Hispanic, I personally know that this book defines what a Christmas Evening in the Latino culture looks like. This book is appropriate for readers in grades kinder to second grade because of easy language. I would use this book to teach a unit on Mexican culture or a unit on different culture during Christmas.
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