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My Mom Is A Foreigner, But Not To Me (2013)

by Julianne Moore(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1452107920 (ISBN13: 9781452107929)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Chronicle Books

review 1: This would be a good book for a young child who is starting to realize that his or her parent(s) are, culturally, a little different than some other parents. It would also be a good book for any children living in a diverse community. The rhyme was smoother than I expected it to be, and I enjoyed the illustrations showing people and things from many different countries and cultures. Great message.
review 2: “My Mom Is a Foreigner, But Not to Me” is a poetic, biography-like story from the perspective of children with foreign mothers. The beautiful rhythmic flow of the story, in the lives of 7 mothers and their children, portrays how their mothers are different in their practices of everyday activities, but in the end they are still their mothers. The author,... more Julianne Moore, captures the voice of the children as she describes the different ways the mother’s talk (“She calls me foreign nicknames, WEE ONE, liebchen, or bebe.”) or how the children call their mothers different names (Mutti, Mom, Maman, Mam, Mummy, Mamma). In the end, Moore sums up that although the mothers may be from different places and practice ways of life in different manners, all of them are still mothers to their children; “She might seem kind of different, and you’d be right to guess, but compared to other Moms, I know that she’s the best.” I appreciate Moore’s personal connection to the story because her mother is a “foreigner” as well as the illustrator’s personal connection, being a “foreign” mother, which makes the cultural perspectives in this text authentic. As a teacher I would use this text to teach the poetry and the use of rhyme as well as the idea that although all families are different, they still hold importance to us all. less

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