Cross The Little Red Hen with a burro and friends and you get this humorous southwestern retelling of the childhood favorite! When Burro decides to turn corn into tortillas, he finds it hard to get help from his friends. This delightful, punny story imparts an accurate picture of the traditional way that tortillas are made. The ?For Creative Minds? section includes a ?Corn: From Plant to Table? guide, a ?How Many Ways We Eat Corn? activity, a recipe for making tortillas, and a Spanish/English matching activity. Encourages children to work hard and to do what?s right, even if their friends don?t.Burro?s Tortillas was vetted for scientific accuracy by Elizabeth Wolanyk, director of education and research at the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture.

Terri Fields has written seventeen books which have garnered a number of awards including the Maud Hart Lovelace Award for Middle Grades Fiction, the Georgia Children's Choice Award, being named to the Recommended Reading List for Chicago Public School, the TAYSHAS (Texas) Reading List, the Southwest Books of the Year List, and as one of the 100 Top Kid Picks in Children's Books in Arizona. A long time desert-dweller, Ms Fields has enjoyed sharing her books with children all over the world. In addition to writing, Ms. Fields is also a educator who has been named Arizona Teacher of the Year, ING Education Innovator for Arizona, and been selected as one of the twenty teachers on the All-USA Teacher Team of the nation's top educators. Her high-school English students have won local, regional and/or national creative writing awards for thirty-four consecutive years. Ms. Fields sees the world around her in terms of the wonderful stories it reveals.