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Jalapeno Bagels is about a Mexican-Jewish boy.
I thought this was an interesting article from an online newsletter I get called Shelf Awareness regarding multicultural picture books:
A solid majority of adults in the U.S. believe in the importance of multicultural picture books for children, but many find it difficult to obtain them. According to a recent telephone survey of a thousand adults conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, 78% said they believe that it is important for children to be exposed to picture books that feature main characters of various ethnicities or races, while 33% reported that it is difficult to find such books.
The survey also found that 73% of parents and 49% of adults have purchased a children's picture book with a protagonist of a different race or ethnicity from the child who will be reading the book, while only 10% consider it important to match the race or ethnicity of the main character of a picture book to the race or ethnicity of the child who will be receiving the book.
"It's reassuring that so many adults recognize the value in exposing children to books that portray people of all colors and ethnicities," sai
I don't know about you, but I enjoy the back matter of a book as much as the story. So when writing Jalapeno Bagels many moons ago, I added back matter so that teachers could have some teaching tools to extend the reading experience. There's a glossary plus two recipes for baked goods mentioned in the story.
At the time I wrote the book, I must admit I was more trustful of sources than I am today. When the bakery I fashioned this story from gave me their recipe for Chango Bars, I gladly reprinted it in the back matter. Unfortunately, I assumed they had tested the recipe so I didn't. We have since heard from readers who have made the bars and found them to be very dry.
I have the opportunity to correct the time in the recipe, but before I do, I wanted a larger test group. If you are willing, (and you have family and friends who are also willing to taste your experiment) would you please make and bake the Chango Bar recipe in the back of Jalapeno Bagels and take it out of the oven when YOU think it's done and let me know the cooking time. Then I'll see what the consensus is and we'll get'er fixed! Also, let me know if you used a glass or metal pan.
