The Day it Snowed Tortillas
Tales from Spanish New Mexico

Some of these stories are really great, but some are eh okay. I think they are best read like one a day or one a week. I read them continuously back to back and I think that was not the best way to have read them. I started this last year but then put it down and away and finally picked it up again.......more

The Day It Snowed Tortillas/El dia que nevo tortilla Author: Joe Hayes Genre: Folklore The Day It Snowed Tortillas is about a foolish, uneducated firewood cutter. He was a good man and good at his job but always found himself getting into trouble because of his mouth. However, the firewood cutter had a......more

The Day It Snowed Tortillas is a collection of folktales that were told throughout New Mexico villages over 400 hundred years ago. The author, Joe Hayes wrote the stories in both English and Spanish. The stories are engaging, kept me laughing, and reminded me of stories my parents and grandparents u......more

When introduced the folktale genre in class, I immediately thought about the opportunity to incorporate different cultures as well as languages. Joe Hayes does an awesome job of writing original stories with his own twist. These stories would be entertaining for any grade level, but more specificall......more

The book, the Day It Snowed Tortillas, is a folklore collection of short stories that have been told and passed down in villages in New Mexico for centuries! These stories are written in both spanish and english for students in grades 4-5. I read this book as an ebook but it is also available in oth......more