What Can You Do with a Rebozo?/Que Puede Hacer Con Un Rebozo? Book

In Carmon Tafolla's Pura Belpre Honor book, she writes about a young girl answers the book's main question "what can you do with a rebozo?". A rebozo is a shawl worn by Mexican women for many centuries. Their wide variety of uses is illustrated throughout the story. Cordova's illustrations, I feel represent the Mexican culture very well as she incorporates many cultural aspects into the illustrations just as Tafolla does in the text. I like that the names of characters were authentic to Mexican culture and Tafolla incorporates some Spanish words, other than rebozo, into the story. I also really liked the particular illustration that depicts the young girl's dance costume. I felt it does a good job representing the rebozo and the culture. I would incorporate this book into my classroom library because I feel that is a great cultural learning tool. I feel like it would be helpful for a classroom with predominantly Spanish speakers as they can read about their own culture and can be used in the classroom to talk about their culture. I think it is important to have library books that teach students about different cultures as classrooms become increasingly diverse.