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The first tortilla : a bilingual story

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Jade is a young girl who lives in a village next to a towering volcano. On its peak lives a Mountain Spirit who makes his presence known by rumbling the earth, filling the sky with smoke, and pouring lava down the mountainside. Angered by those who forget to honor him for providing their harvest, the Mountain Spirit has stopped sending rain to Jade's village and the people are faced with the possibility of having to abandon their homes and land.

As Jade collects water from the near-dry lake, a blue hummingbird--a messenger from the Mountain Spirit--tells Jade she must take a gift to the Mountain Spirit and ask for rain. Guided by the hummingbird, Jade presents her food offering to the Mountain Spirit. Pleased, the spirit offers the brave girl corn kernels that she takes back to her village and uses to create the first tortilla.

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19013

F51

Mother Tongue

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Detail Information

Series Title

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Call Number

F51

Publisher

Albuquerque, MEXICO : University Of New Mexico Press., 2007

Collation

32 pages : illustration ; 21 cm

Language

Spanish

ISBN/ISSN

9780826342157

Classification

NONE

Content Type

text

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Edition

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Subject(s)

Courage
Bilingual books
Spanish literature
Spirits
Droughts
Hummingbirds
Tortillas

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