A01=Gabriel Frye-Behar
A01=Ruth Behar
A12=Erika Rodriguez Medina
Author_Erika Rodriguez Medina
Author_Gabriel Frye-Behar
Author_Ruth Behar
Category=DS
Category=YFN
Category=YFP
Category=YNM
Category=YNPC
Category=YXF
cooking
cuban
culture
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eq_biography-true-stories
eq_childrens
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_personal-social-topics
eq_teenage-young-adult
family
food
forthcoming
picadillo
restaurant
tradition
vegetarian
Product details
- ISBN 9781324052418
- Dimensions: 241 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2026
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Paulina has had the birthday of her dreams with the gift of a visit to an animal sanctuary and to make it even better, her whole family gathers for a celebratory dinner at Cocina de Nana. But when Nana starts passing around her famed Cuban picadillo, Paulina turns it down. It’s made from animalitos, like the ones Paulina was visiting earlier in the day. She’d made a promise to those animals and is determined to keep it: she’s become a vegetarian. With a bit of trepidation and ultimately mucho, mucho amor, Paulina discovers what it means to practice your own beliefs while still honouring your family’s history and traditions. Picadillo for Paulina is an accessible, delightful picture book celebration of young eaters’ connections to family, food and culture.
Ruth Behar is a Newbery Honor and Pura Belpré Award-winning author and MacArthur Genius who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Gabriel Frye-Behar is a Brooklyn-based, Cuban American filmmaker, writer, and photographer. Erika Rodriguez Medina is a book publicist and illustrator based in Vancouver, Canada.
