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This picture book about shapes is set in a Mexican town. As a young girl joins in the various activities in her home and around her community, she describes the shapes around her. “Round are sombreros.
Round is the moon.
Round are the trumpets that blare out a tune. Round are campanas that chime and ring.
Round are the nests where swallows sing.” The double-page spread illustrations (rendered in paint) and rhyming text incorporate Latino culture and tradition. The girl wears bright colors during a Mexican Hat Dance.
She helps her grandmother make a special stew in the kitchen, and visits the zócalo for fun. Corn is shown being ground at her casa (house), and mariachis play music in the streets. The twenty-two Spanish words that appear in the story are defined in the glossary at the end of the book, but they don’t include a pronunciation guide.
Children can interact with this book by finding the shapes mentioned in the text, and by looking at the illustrations to find the other objects that resemble or match that shape. This book could be read to a group of children or one on one. Although there are no recipes included in the book, adults may want to introduce their children to the various foods mentioned in the story.
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Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes