A rhythmic text with repetitive phrases relates how the children watch Mamá make soup (recipe included) and go with Papá to get tortillas before enjoying the results of her labor.
On her first day at a new school, Adelita makes new friends through a lesson on vegetables, including how some vegetables are "cousins" because they share certain characteristics.
A beautiful old-fashioned doll, long neglected on a toy store's shelves, becomes the last special doll given to a Mexican American girl when she celebrates her fifteenth birthday.