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La Tamalada from Multcolib My Librarian Memo

Mexican-American families like to gather with relatives and friends to make tamales on Christmas Eve.

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  • Each year on Christmas Eve, Rosie's abuela teaches her not only how to make a delicious tamale, but how to make a delicious life--one filled with love, plenty of spice, and family.
    BookPetaluma, California : Cameron Kids/Cameron + Company, a division of Abrams, 2021. — jE Holiday GENHART 2021
  • A Bilingual Book About Tamales: Tita la gallinita finds grains of corn. She has a plan for them, but none of her friends want to help her. What will her friends miss out on?
    BookDallas, TX : Brownie Books, [2020] — SPANISH jE FLORES 2020
  • Tamalitos

    Un Poema Para Cocinar

    Argueta, Jorge,
    Provides a poetic recipe for cheese tamalitos that not only offers instructions for making them but highlights the importance of corn in the foodways of the Americas.
    BookToronto ; Berkeley : Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo, House of Anansi Press, [2013] — SPANISH j 861.6 ARGUETA 2013
  • One snowy day, Luz's grandmother teaches her how to make tamales while telling her the story of how Luz's great-grandfather was taught by his aunt.
    BookAlbuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2011] — SPANISH jE BACA 2011
  • Six-year-old Ana looks forward to growing older and being allowed more responsibility in making the tamales for the family's Christmas celebrations.
    BookHouston, TX : Piñata Books, ©2008. — SPANISH jE ZEPEDA 2008
  • Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get together, but panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.
    BookNew York : Putnam, c1993. — jE Holiday SOTO 1993b