Our Family Dinner Book Club selection for the month of December is Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto. Here you’ll find a menu that can be prepared with the help of your children, as well as festive table decorations, and will hopefully be a fun and interactive activity for the whole family. Head over to Growing Book by Book for some talking points to get the conversation started as well as an idea for a family service project. Then visit Sunny Day Family for a fun craft. We invite you to share a picture from your dinner with us anytime during the month on our Family Dinner Book Club Facebook page.
Too Many Tamales is a sweet book about family traditions, and then an all too typical child-led cover up ending in a belly ache! It is a fun and heartwarming Christmastime story filled with good food. Of course our main dish must be tamales! 24 to be exact (or however many you need for your family). For dessert we have buñuelos and champurrado – 2 more classic Mexican Christmas dishes.
Too Many Tamales
Family Dinner Book Club
Menu
Tamales
White Pozole
Refried Beans
Rice
Tortilla Chips
Guacamole
Buñuelos
Champurrado
Table Decorations
A good family feast needs some good table decorations. Check out all the details of this Mexican-Inspired Christmas Tablescape!
Every Christmas Eve we make tamales in our house. It’s one of our most favorite family traditions.
I love the idea of a family dinner book club! So cute! 🙂
Thank you! It is so much fun. We have a book a month, so you should definitely follow along!