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Picture Book · Ages 4–8 · 2012
Señorita Gordita
By Helen Ketteman, Will Terry (Illustrator)
A corn cake escapes the frying pan, sparking a wild desert chase.
3.7/5 Goodreads · 190 ratings
32 pages
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Bookroo's summary
Senorita Gordita, a spirited corn cake, leaps from the frying pan and dashes through the desert. With each flip and skip, she taunts her pursuers—a spider, a rattler, and more. Can she outwit them all, or will her daring escape end in capture? This lively Tex-Mex twist on a classic tale promises a thrilling chase full of unexpected turns.
From the publisher
In this Tex-Mex retelling of The Little Gingerbread Man, Senorita Gordita–a little corn cake– escapes from the frying pan and leads a merry chase. She runs through the desert boasting, You’ll never catch me! while fleeing from a spider, a rattler, and other hungry creatures with a flip, and a skip, and a zip-zoom-zip. A fast-paced and wildly illustrated twist on an old favorite.
At a glance
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 32
- Reading age
- 4–8
- Audience
- Picture
- Lexile
- AD550L
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The fine print
Book details
Reading levels
- ATOS
- 2.29
- F&P level
- ~N
- AR points
- 0.5
- AR interest level
- LG
- AR quiz
- 150460
Publication
- Published
- March 1, 2012
- Publisher
- Albert Whitman & Company
Edition
- Language
- English
- Type
- Picture Book
Identifiers
- ISBN
- 9780807573020
- LCCN
- 2011008569
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