Senorita Gordita

By Helen Ketteman and Will Terry

2013 IRA-CBC Children's Choices

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Release date: Feb 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9780807573037

Helen Ketteman

Helen Ketteman is the author of more than nineteen picture books. She writes for children ranging from preschool through fourth or fifth grade, and especially enjoys telling fractured fairy tales. Helen earned her Associate of Arts degree from Young Harris College in Young Harris, GA, and her B.A. degree in English from Georgia State University in Atlanta.

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Reviews for Senorita Gordita

[cheryl_in_cc_nv · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Glossary of Spanish vocabulary and recipe for gorditas in the back. Classic ending (it is a fable, not a fairy tale, after all). I did enjoy it and do recommend it to the target audiences.

[trinityc-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A Mexican version of Gingerbread man. It has a lot of colorful language and includes spanish words, including a glossary of the spanish at the end. It also has a recipe for the Gordita. This book gives lots of examples of words for the gordita getting away and introduces animal names in Spanish in a way that is easy to infer. I like the story and it would fun to have students compare it to the Gingerbread man version.