A Mexican jumping bean isn't a bean at all. It's a fascinating home and food source for a special kind of caterpillar

With Spanish vocabulary and a clever counting concept, this poetic story shares the life cycle of a Mexican jumping bean. This curious jumping insect is actually a seedpod from a shrub called yerba de la flecha, into which a caterpillar burrows, living inside the pod until it builds a cocoon and breaks out as a moth. Perfect for preschoolers and prereaders, this creative picture book explores the Mexican jumping bean's daily life and eventual transformation and escape from the pod.

Author: Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Published: 11/05/2019
Pages: 32
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 8.60h x 11.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781580898157
Audience: 03 - 07


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019 pg. 99
School Library Journal 11/01/2019 pg. 76
Shelf Awareness 12/10/2019
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2020 pg. 108
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2020 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

About the Author
Claudia Guadalupe Martínez learned that letters form words from reading subtitles of old westerns with her father. Her debut novel, The Smell of Old Lady Perfume, received the 2009 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, the 2008 Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult Book Award, and a 2009 Americas Award Commendation. Pig Park won the 2015 Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult Book and the 2015 NACCS Tejas Foco Young Adult Fiction Award. Not a Bean is her first picture book.

Laura Gonzalez has a degree in graphic design from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Mexico, where she also studied illustration. She is a member of the Mexican Association of Illustrators (AMDI) and has illustrated several books for children. www.laugonzalez.com