What Can You Do with a Rebozo? Carmen Tafolla

Illustrated by Amy Cordova
Tricycle Press, 2008
$14.95
28 pgs.
For: kids
Rating: 4
Endpapers: Edges of a red rebozo scarf (and two colorful butterflies!)

If you don't know what a rebozo is, you will by the end of the book. And now I want one! I saw someone wearing a pretty white sleeveless dress with a deep lime/avacado rebozo draped across her shoulders, and she looked stunning. I bet it'd look good on anyone of any shape and size. And we watch as a family uses the mom's rebozo in many ways - carrying a baby, playing hide and seek, wrapping in lovely long hair, for warmth as a shawl, covering your eyes when playing pinata, as a superhero cape, and eve to clean up spills when nothing else is handy.

The illustrations include all sorts of colorful Hispanic/Mexican/American art and traditions and cover the entire page with bright beautiful color. I really enjoy this artist! (Amy Cordova owns a gallery in northern New Mexico (Taos, I think). Road Trip!