"While three little tamales cool off on a windowsill, a tortilla rolls
by. "You'll be eaten. You'd better run!" he tells them. And so the
tamales jump out the window. The first runs to the prairie and builds a
house of sagebrush. The second runs to a cornfield and builds a house of
cornstalks. The third runs to the desert and builds a house of cactus.
Then who should come along but Señor Lobo, the Big Bad Wolf, who plans
to blow their houses down. Valeria Docampo's oil-and-pencil
illustrations add zest and humor to this rollicking southwestern version
of a popular tale.