Arroz Con Leche

Originally posted on Arroz Con Leche the Blog. Visit for a chance to win your own copy of this book.

I absolutely love this book! I remember buying this book years and years ago and being in awe with it. Being a Puerto Rican in the diaspora, I tend to grasp at anything that involves my culture and/or history. My family has always tried to maintain our roots alive and kicking even if we do live so very far from the island.
Now, being a mommy to a multi-racial child, I find that not only do I have to teach him about our history/culture, I also have to find ways to incorporate both Spanish and English in every way I can too.

This book is perfect for both tasks. In the pages of this book you will find rhymes that children all over Latin America play and dance to. They are not only in Spanish but in English too!

This I find absolutely wonderful since many of our kids are already learning Spanish or some other language other than English in school.

I do have to say that the illustrations are not true depictions of our people but the songs truly are. I found memories of my parent's childhood and of mine too within these pages. Perhaps you can too. :-)