How Nanita Learned to Make Flan - Hardcover

Join a little girl on a fairy tale journey filled with discovery...danger...and delicious flan! "Tap, tap, tap" goes Papa's little hammer. Nanita's papa is a shoemaker who works so hard he doesn't even have time to make his own daughter a pair of shoes. Now Nanita's First Communion is coming up, but how can she appear before Our Lady of Guadalupe in bare feet? "Tap, tap, tap." So Nanita decides make the shoes for herself. But somehow, her odd little creations turn out to be enchanted, and they sleepwalk her far, far away. When she awakens, poor Nanita is lost. How this feisty heroine finds her way back home is sure to delight all young readers, as will the recipe for magical flan.

Just like the best chili, everything from his Texas childhood goes into Campbell Geeslin's stories. All he needs is a plateful of tamales for supper, and he dreams up tales like this one for his grandchildren. He and his wife, a wonderful cocinera, now live in White Plains, New York.