BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL - ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Rocio and her family moved from her familiar home to the United States. She misses her old home, especially her Abuela, with whom she lived. She misses her culture, the foods, her language, and seeing her Abuela every day in her shop. She wishes she had a piñata, handmade by her grandmother, to hang in her new bedroom. The night before her birthday, she wishes upon a star and wakes up to a wonderful surprise for her special day.
Ceolin's illustrations are so colorful, authentic and realistic. Students will imagine being in a beautiful, warm country with the vivid colors used throughout the story. The text is matched beautifully with the illustrations, placing readers in Rocio’s shoes as she misses her old, colorful, familiar country and relatives. A perfect book for elementary school libraries to teach children how difficult it is to leave your familiar home, family, and culture and come to a new place and start over. A lovely way to help students from other countries feel included and see themselves in stories that verbalize their feelings. A book with empathy for students to feel what others from other countries might feel as they immigrate to the United States. The ethnicity of the main characters appears to be Hispanic or Latino.
Deanna M. - Elementary Media Tech
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