Author : Harriet Rohmer and Cruz Gomez, Illustrator : Enrique Chagoya
1st Grade - 4th Grade

La visita del Sr Azucar - Mr Sugar Came to Town

La visita del Sr Azucar - Mr Sugar Came to Town, Softcover, Bilingual, Book, Harriet Rohmer and Cruz Gomez, Enrique Chagoya, 1st Grade - 4th Grade, 9780892391417, # 10123s, $7.95

Grandma Lupe's tamales are the favorite food of all the children in town until Mr. Sugar comes riding in on his magical truck full of sweets. Suddenly the children won't eat anything but double-chocolate sundaes, raspberry cream pie, and fudge bars. Before long they're so roly-poly they can't see their feet, and their teeth are full of black holes! It falls to Grandma Lupe to unmask Mr. Sugar and to show the children why something that feels good may not be good for them. Adapted from a puppet play by the Migrant Farmworkers Outreach Program in California's Central Valley, this fanciful tale treats the themes of substance abuse and nutrition in an amusing, whimsical way.

Listen to Vienna Rose read Mr Sugar Came to Town to you.  A marvelous example of the magical encounter between a child and books that we wish for all children.

"This funny, moralistic story was adapted from a puppet show which was used as part of a health clinic's outreach program to migrant farmworkers and their families in California. Humorous illustrations with exaggerated perspectives complement the text on each facing page." —School Library Journal

"Anyone who has tried to woo a child away from sugar should read Mr. Sugar Came to Town." —Newspaper Morena

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