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Yum! ¡Mmmm! ¡Qué Rico! Americas' Sproutings

  1. What is your favorite food? Do you know where it comes from? Do you know where it got its name? See if you can find out. What other interesting facts can you discover about it?
  2. Which of the foods in the book are grown in Oregon ? Which come from other states? Other countries? Think about the food you ate at your last meal. Do you know where the ingredients in those foods came from? Which do you think came from Oregon? Which came from other places? Where?
  3. How many syllables are in each line of a haiku? Haiku is one type of poetry, but there are many others. What other sorts of poems do you know of? What makes them different from haiku?
  4. Most of the illustrations show the food as it really is. Why do you think the artist chose to depict the pineapple and peanut butter with faces?
  5. Cover a poem and look only at the illustration. What does it say about the food?
  6. Cover a poem and write your own haiku based on the illustration. How did your haiku compare with the one written by Pat Mora? Did the illustrator do a good job of conveying her poem?
  7. The artist, Rafael López, used acrylic paint on wood panel. Look at the ground and the sky in the illustration for pecan or potato or tomato. Can you see the effect of painting on wood?