Gonzalez. L.M. (1994). The Bossy Gallito / El Gallo de
Bodas: A Traditional Cuban Folktale. NY: Scholastic
A Cuban folktale and Pura Belpre Award winner about a
rooster who finds a corn in the mud but he is on his way to his uncles wedding
and doesn’t want to get his beak dirty. Without much hesitation he eats the
corn and gets mud on his beak. He goes to grass to clean it off, but the grass
does not want to help him. Then he asks a goat to eat grass but goat does not
want to help either. Therefore he goes to sun for help and he is delighted to
help because every morning rooster greets him with a crow. Finally the rooster
gets his beak cleaned in time for his uncle Perico’s wedding. A delightful
story written in both English and Spanish with the setting done in watercolors
that gives a taste of Little Havanan, Cuba.
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