Tortillas y Cancioncitas
by Lynn Reiser (Greenwillow Press. William and Morrow, 1998. Review)

This beautiful book contains a set of four stories in which a little girl describes how what her grandmother and her mother did are similar and different from what she does. With one phrase per page, in Spanish and English, the book is excellent for elementary age children from kindergarten through fifth grade. The last story is followed by a lullaby with the written music. Extraordinary folk-art paintings by "Corazones Valientes", an organization of Costa Rican women artists, accompany all four stories. This is a book that the children will return to over and over.