The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred

Stunning illustrations but the adaptation of the "The House That Jack Built" is clumsy.

Fun, colorful illustrations. Cumulative story like "The House that Jack Built" with a bilingual twist.

4Q: the bright illustrations and Spanish language integration are nicely done.
4P: the familiar cumulative tale format and bright illustrations make this one that will be well-read.

Lopez’s art is just almost the same for this as in Book Fiesta. The art is colorful and has a Latin American style to it. The art builds on itself the same as the text does, so it helps the story flow. With the color and style, I can see this style catching a child’s eyes and keeping his or her

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The illustration in this tale makes you feel happy and excited as you read the tale of a maiden making rice pudding with the help of her community. The colors used to create the artwork remind me of a bright and colorful Mexican fiesta and you cannot help by love the story line of the book. I did

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have trouble trying to read the Spanish words in the tale but bright illustrations compelled me to finish and work through my difficulties. The artwork is simple line drawing created in the classical sense to look realistic and traditional Mexican looking artwork.

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Beautiful, bold-colored illustrations!!! It is a lovely story of a maiden making rice pudding and all of those she encounters while gathering her ingredients. The author uses Spanish words for many of the ingredients but provides a glossary of terms at the end. Fun book!

This is a tribute to the classic nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built." The words don't flow as smoothly as I would have liked, but the illustrations are stunning. It is a fun book with the added bonus of a recipe and glossary of the Spanish words used.

“The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred” by Samantha R. Vamos and illustrated by Rafael Lopez was given the Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor in 1998. It is a book about a farm maiden who is in the process of making arroz con leche (rice pudding) with the help of her farm animals. The

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illustrations are created with acrylics on grained wood to create textured images with vivid colors that reflect the Spanish culture. The text begins with “This is the pot that the farm maiden stirred/This is the butter that went into the cazuela that the farm maiden stirred.” Readers of all ages can easily come to the conclusion that “cazuela” is the Spanish translation of the word “pot.” Each page introduces a new ingredient for arroz con leche in a list in sentence form in English with the Spanish translation only of the ingredients. Lopez’s illustrations provide a colorful visual reinforcement of the vocabulary. This book can be used as a successful way to present Spanish terms to English speaking readers.

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The book has plenty of repetition in it. It is about a cazuela that is used to make arroz con leche. It goes on saying how everyone has contributed to making what is in the cazuela. It repeats itself in every page. The ingredients are said in English first then in the next page translated to

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Spanish. This book is good for any student in elementary. I would use it during the holidays if I taught at a Hispanic dominate school.

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Good storytime read with recipe for rice pudding at end.

A vocabulary book with a recipe of the cazuela, a Mexico soup. The book has the vocabulary repeated so often that kid can easily learned to memorize.

The story of the cazuela adds to itself, including Spanish in the text when something else new is added. There are many characters, people and animals, involved in creating the cazuela.

The book would be useful in discussing teamwork and the use of context clues to figure out the Spanish.

A farm maiden is preparing to make “arroz con leche”. She receives help from a variety of animals and a friend. The book has a variety of Spanish words that are presented in English first.
This could be a great book for language comparison.

I thought this was such a cute book. Bilingual and all the farm animals help. You can talk about what the animal, after the poem the house that Jack built. There is also a great recipe at the end. Vibrant colors and illustrations.

The best way to pass on tradition, custom, knowledge and history happens when we get together in the kitchen for cooking. And, La Cazuela is written very well because it is written in both English and Spanish about a farmers wife preparing "arroz con leche" and ask the farm animals for help.

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Illustrations are a asset. The book is also great because its a predictable book and repetitive for beginning or struggling readers but isn't too easy. Best part is at the end author shares a recipe for arroz con leche.
Great way to introduce family history, customs, traditions, folklore, geography, cooking, food.

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This sort of reminded me of the green grass grows all around. Each page adds another character and how they contribute to the rice pudding. The Spanish words are defined in the glossary in the back . There’s a long repeating section that gets crazier and crazier that I think the children would

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enjoy. I think you could use this with lower elementary. The illustrations are done with warm colors and are very stylized and I really enjoyed them.

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This sort of reminded me of the green grass grows all around. Each page adds another character and how they contribute to the rice pudding. The Spanish words are defined in the glossary in the back . There’s a long repeating section that gets crazier and crazier that I think the children would

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enjoy. I think you could use this with lower elementary. The illustrations are done with warm colors and are very stylized and I really enjoyed them.

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This sort of reminded me of the green grass grows all around. Each page adds another character and how they contribute to the rice pudding. The Spanish words are defined in the glossary in the back . There’s a long repeating section that gets crazier and crazier that I think the children would

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enjoy. I think you could use this with lower elementary. The illustrations are done with warm colors and are very stylized and I really enjoyed them.

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This sort of reminded me of the green grass grows all around. Each page adds another character and how they contribute to the rice pudding. The Spanish words are defined in the glossary in the back . There’s a long repeating section that gets crazier and crazier that I think the children would

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enjoy. I think you could use this with lower elementary. The illustrations are done with warm colors and are very stylized and I really enjoyed them.

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Inspired by the well known "The House that Jack Built", this cumulative tale, tell us a fictional story of several real steps and many farm animal involved, in the making of the traditional desert from Latin America "Arroz con Leche" adding the key words in Spanish. The colorful illustrations

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painted in bright temperas by Rafael Lopez, represent the chain of what is happening in a very dynamic and entertaining fashion, portraying a life in the country side.

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A cumulative bi-lingual picture book that made me hungry!

This is a book about a