BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
A girl finds powerful magic in the place where she lives. Her Abuelo's pineapple farm, the wool blankets her mother and tia make, and how her father an architect turns drawings into buildings, but there is also magic in the hard things, storms and plagues of bugs, sickness, and grief. Magic is always there.
The illustrations were beautiful, but the story was just a list of things from her childhood. Things she loved, or hard times she went through. I think adults will find nostalgia, but I don't see the appeal for children. The family is Mexican.
Lisa Librarian
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