Cora Cooks Pancit - Read Aloud Edition
A heartwarming tale of mother and daughter preparing a family recipe.
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4.2 • 50 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Cora loves being in the kitchen, but she always gets stuck doing the kid jobs like licking the spoon. One day, however, when her older sisters and brother head out, Cora finally gets the chance to be Mama's assistant chef. And of all the delicious Filipino dishes that dance through Cora's head, she and Mama decide to make pancit, her favorite noodle dish. With Mama's help, Cora does the grown-up jobs like shredding the chicken and soaking the noodles (perhaps Mama won't notice if she takes a nibble of chicken or sloshes a little water on the floor). Cora even gets to stir the noodles in the pot carefully-- while Mama supervises. When dinner is finally served, her siblings find out that Cora did all their grown-up tasks, and Cora waits anxiously to see what everyone thinks of her cooking.
Dorina Lazo Gilmore's text and Kristi Valiant’s illustrations delightfully capture the warmth between mother and daughter as they share a piece of their Filipino heritage.
• Content available in Read Aloud format with professionally recorded narration.
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Customer Reviews
Cora cooks pancit
I was delighted to read a children's book about a Filipino family cooking traditional Filipino cuisine. The story of Cora's grandfather being a cook for Filipino farm workers was very interesting to me, being a Filipino immigrant to California in the 1960's, myself. I would like to see more stories about Cora & her family - where they live, more family history, more cooking & seeing her growing up in America as a Filipino-American.
A snapshot of my childhood captured in this book!
This book stirred up memories of my mang (mom) letting me and my sisters watch her how to cook (Filipino foods). Mang used to let us do all the prep work (Believe me Filipino foods requires a lot of prep work!). I want to share this book with my daughter, she'll be thrilled to read something with her own cultural background. Salamat!
Memory lane:)
This book is awesome! Bring back good memories about me when I was growing up:)