What Can You Do with a Paleta? - (Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award) by Carmen Tafolla (Hardcover)

About the Book

Create a masterpiece, make tough choices (strawberry or coconut?), or cool off on a warm summer day--there's so much to do with a paleta. A young girl introduces readers to this frozen, fruit-flavored treat that thrills Mexican and Mexican-American children. Full color.

Book Synopsis

Where the paleta wagon rings its tinkly bell
and carries a treasure of icy paletas
in every color of the sarape . . .

As she strolls through her barrio, a young girl introduces readers to the frozen, fruit-flavored treat that thrills Mexican and Mexican-American children. Create a masterpiece, make tough choices (strawberry or coconut?), or cool off on a warm summer's day--there's so much to do with a paleta.

About the Author

MAGALY MORALES is known for the bright colors and infectious sense of play in her illustrations. She was born in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

CARMEN TAFOLLA is a poet whose stories for children and adults have appeared in more than two hundred poetry anthologies. She lives in a hundred-year-old house in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, children, mother, and many pets.