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My Abuelita (2009)

by Tony Johnston(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0152163301 (ISBN13: 9780152163303)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

HMH Books for Young Readers

review 1: My Abuelita was an excellent story, filled with many detailed pictures that added to the story. This book is about a young child who lives with their grandma, and the things they do together on a daily basis. As this book tells the story of this wonderful friendship, the author also ties in some Spanish words to teach the reader as their reading along. A lot of children live with their grandparents these days, so this book is a good one to relate too.
review 2: The main idea of the story is trying to figure out what Abuelita does for a living. This story is a celebration of power, family, and imagination. Tony loves his grandmother so much and has so many different jobs and he wants to know what does his Abuelita do. The main characters in the story are Abuelit... morea, the grandmother, and Tony, the author/ narrator in the book. This text is a fiction book. This text is appropriate for instructional use because it can teach about using your imagination, the importance of family and learning a new language (Spanish). The students could talk about the different things that the do with their grandparents, and they could say the Spanish words as a class on each page of the book. Ex: the author says a different Spanish word on each page of the book and points it out as a learning tool. The author and illustrator’s cultural backgrounds relate to the content of the text in many different ways. Johnston has written many different Spanish poems and she spent years living in Mexico. The illustrator, Yuyi Morales is born and raised in Mexico. So both of these women have a Mexican and or Spanish background. The author did a great job incorporating the Spanish words in the story and the illustrator did great with brining out the Mexican abstract in the pictures. Abuelita has on Spanish material and the story. This text can teach children that there are many different types of grandmothers. Grandmothers who are darker skinned, grandmothers who are lighter skinned, and grandmothers who do different things. Everyone has their own special way of spending time with their grandmother. less

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