Sopa de frijoles: Un poema para cocinar | Bean Soup: A Cooking Poem | Bilingual Children’s Book

DESCRIPTION 

This delightful recipe is written as a bilingual poem in Spanish and English in the book Sopa de frijoles: Un poema para cocinar | Bean Soup: A Cooking Poem and shows us all, young and old, how to make a heartwarming, tummy-filling bean soup.

From gathering the beans, onions and garlic to letting them swim in the pot until the house smells wonderful and it’s time for supper.

A young boy helps his mother prepare a soup the whole family will enjoy using ingredients from na tire. Onions are “yellow as the dawn,” beans are like stars spread out on the “sky of the table” and the water in the pot is “as deep as a little lake.” While the soup is cooking, the boy buries the cooking scraps under a tree in the yard “so Mother Earth keeps on growing flavors.”

Simply written, yet full of vivid imagery, Jorge Argueta’s verse and Rafael Yockteng’s animated illustrations make preparing bean soup a fun, almost magical experience.

DETAILS

• Sopa de frijoles: Un poema para cocinar | Bean Soup: A Cooking Poem 
• Written by Jorge Argueta and illustrated by Rafael Yockteng.
• Published by Groundwood Books, March 14, 2017.
• Ages 4 to 7 years
• 0.2" H x 10.3" L x 7.0" W (0.25 lbs) 32 pages
• Softcover