While the 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 desrt and builds a house of cactus.
Then who should come along but Se or 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.