Tortillas: storytelling traditions

by Elisabeth Contreras-Moran, Elisabeth Contreras-Moran (Illustrator)

Overview

Tortillas pays homage to storytelling and ancestral pride through the sharing and making of a traditional family recipe.

Using a rich repetitive narrative and vibrant illustrations, Tortillas explains the process of making Mexican tortillas, a mother and son together, while honoring the roots of the recipe through the oral history of storytelling and of familial roots extending across both geographical distance and generations. Tortillas showcases all that is important in one family's Latino heritage: telling stories of ancestry, remembering family values, sharing food as a sign of respect and love, an affinity for the natural environment, and the importance of making traditional meals, which bring family and friends to the table. Tortillas is a lovely, heart warming book to share cultural appreciation and to remind readers of the importance of knowledge passed from past to present.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823178303
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	01/13/2023
Pages:	34
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.09(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Elisabeth Contreras-Moran is an environmental scientist turned writer and poet. She has degrees from Princeton University and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY and became a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center, CUNY before she moved to rural England. She trained as a teacher in England, now home educating her son and his friends in nature immersed ways. She writes and creates at night, when the house is quiet. Elisabeth enjoys writing prose poetry, gardening, authoring and illustrating children’s picture books, and spending copious amounts of time outdoors (English weather allowing). New to poetry publishing, her work has been in Alebrijes Review’s Cultura column and Litro Magazine. Though she cannot speak Spanish fluently, she sometimes dreams in it.