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Picadillo for Paulina by Ruth Behar, Gabriel Frye-Behar, Erika Rodriguez Medina

January 12, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Picadillo for Paulina by Ruth Behar, Gabriel Frye-Behar, and Erika Rodriguez Medina    Having a vegetarian base to the character is a unique way of introducing a food “lifestyle” (for health or personal reasons). The addition of the recipe shows how you can adapt one dish for this traditionally Cuban meat dish. Overall, sweet, I like the tension without it being too confrontational. The images are soft, and bubbly to help soften a somewhat serious story. That is a basic description of the story. I […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health Tagged With: animals, Erika Rodriguez medina, family, Gabriel Frye-Behar, grandmothers, grandparents, Hispanic & Latino, Ruth Behar, Ruth Behar, Gabriel Frye-Behar, Erika Rodriguez Medina, Social Themes, zoos

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:14 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health · Tags: animals, Erika Rodriguez medina, family, Gabriel Frye-Behar, grandmothers, grandparents, Hispanic & Latino, Ruth Behar, Ruth Behar, Gabriel Frye-Behar, Erika Rodriguez Medina, Social Themes, zoos ·
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I’m With the Mariachi Band

Adela’s Mariachi Band by Denise Vega

March 21, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I decided that when I got an email from Charlesbridge (a publisher) I would read some of the twelve online picture book reader copies included. I ended up reading ten (one had been previously read, so technically nine). I didn’t read two because the covers didn’t “speak to me” but I saved the links in case they someday would. One of the reads was Adela’s Mariachi Band. Due in mid-August, this story by Denise Vega and illustrated by Erika Rodriguez Medina was not what I […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: arts, Denise Vega, Erika Rodriguez medina, family, Hispanic & Latino, Mariachi musicians, Mexican American children, Multigenerational, music

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:111 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: arts, Denise Vega, Erika Rodriguez medina, family, Hispanic & Latino, Mariachi musicians, Mexican American children, Multigenerational, music ·
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