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Author : Teresa Armas, Illustrator : Pauline Rodriguez Howard, Translator : Gabriela Baeza Ventura
 Preschool - 2nd Grade

Recordando a Abuela - Remembering Grandma

Del Sol Books, Get The Complete SetRecordando a Abuela - Remembering Grandma, Hardcover, Bilingual, Book, Teresa Armas, Pauline Rodriguez Howard, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9781558853447, $16.95

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Recordando a Abuela - Remembering Grandma, Del Sol BooksA poignant bilingual picture book about the death of a grandparent.

Like most Saturdays, Mr. García’s rooster wakes Lorena much earlier than she wants to wake up. Lorena pulls the covers over her head to block out the day, but she knows she has to get up. Today is no ordinary Saturday. She and her mother will be going to Grandpa’s house.  Since Grandma’s recent death, everything has changed for Lorena. Her mother often cries, and Grandpa sits motionless in his chair staring out the window. Though Mamá says Grandma must be in heaven, Lorena misses Grandma, too. She can’t see or touch heaven. Where is Grandma?  At Grandpa’s house, Lorena tries to help him stop grieving, but not even Grandma’s miracle words, “sana, sana, colita de rana . . .” work. How can Lorena help Grandpa?  Lorena notices a beautiful carved chest in the corner of the room. When Lorena opens it, she sees a tangle of colors, fabrics, and keepsakes from when Grandma was alive. Will the treasured memories inside be able to bring her Grandpa back, to bring back the life in his eyes?  

The charming illustrations bring Lorena’s memories of her grandmother to life in this bilingual picture book for readers aged 3-7 that will help children discover that sometimes, heaven isn’t as far away as it seems.

Vienna RoseListen to Vienna Rose read Remembering Grandma to you.  A marvelous example of the magical encounter between a child and books that we wish for all children.

School Library Journal : Grade 1-3-Lorena is not happy when Mr. Garc'a's rooster wakes her up. First of all, it's a weekend; and secondly, she and her mother must go to her grandfather's house to help him pack up her grandmother's things. Grandma has been dead for a month, and Lorena and her mother miss her terribly. The change in Grandpa, though, is frightening. He suddenly seems frail and tired, unable or unwilling to do anything but sit. When Lorena begins to look through her grandmother's chest, the memories triggered by its contents begin to help Grandpa heal. Warmly told, this story addresses both grief and healing in texts that are sensitive, childlike, and clear. The illustrations are painted in muted tones of peach, mauve, taupe, lavender, and blue, and look almost like photographs in their fidelity to detail. Individual personalities sparkle, and the use of brighter colors at the end of the book, as Grandpa begins to live again, is inspired. Similar to Carmen Santiago Nodar's Abuelita's Paradise (Albert Whitman, 1992) in the use of recollection as a tool for dealing with grief, this is a welcome addition to books on memory, grieving, and the joy of sharing past experiences.

Booklist : Gr. 1-3. A month after her beloved grandmother's death, Lorena and her mother go to what is now Grandpa's house to "clear out Grandma's stuff." Lorena, who can scarcely remember ever seeing her grandparents apart, is saddened by how listless Grandpa is now. But when she goes through a chest of her grandmother's things, she finds the shell necklace they made together. Grandpa puts on Grandma's flower-bedecked hat and gives Lorena the tiny heart on a chain he presented to Grandma when they were both 12 years old. The prose is a little overwrought in English, but the pictures, with their splendid, sturdy figures in fully realized spaces and Southwestern colors, engage with their direct humanity.

Bilingual Collection Blue Books :
Abuelita llena de vida - Abuelita Full of Life, Del Sol BooksAbuelo vivio solo - Grandpa Used to Live Alone, Del Sol BooksA la cama Cucuy - Its Bedtime Cucuy, Del Sol BooksAlla en el rancho grande - Rowdy Rowdy Ranch, Del Sol BooksBaila, Miranda, baila - Dancing Miranda, Del Sol BooksBastante Grande - Big Enough, Del Sol BooksBeisbol en Marte - Baseball on Mars, Del Sol BooksBenjamin y la palabra - Benjamin and the Word, Del Sol BooksBuenas noches Papito Dios - Goodnight Papito Dios, Del Sol BooksCaldo Caldo Caldo - Sip Slurp Soup Soup, Del Sol BooksCesar Chavez La lucha por la justicia - Cesar Chavez The Struggle for Justice, Del Sol BooksChiles para Benito - Chiles for Benito, Del Sol BooksConoces al Cucuy - Do You Know the Cucuy, Del Sol BooksEl chocolate de abuelita - Grandmas Chocolate, Del Sol BooksEl cochinito fugitivo - The Runaway Piggy, Del Sol BooksEl Cuervito al rescate - Little Crow to the Rescue, Del Sol BooksEl desierto es mi madre - The Desert is my Mother, Del Sol BooksEl forastero y el gallo rojo - The Stranger and the Red Rooster, Del Sol BooksEl hombre mofle - Muffler Man, Del Sol BooksEl muumuu de Marina - Marinas Muumuu, Del Sol BooksEl nino goloso - The Triple Banana Split Boy, Del Sol BooksEl papalote de Lupita - Lupitas Papalote, Del Sol BooksEl picnic de Tio Chente - Uncle Chentes Picnic, Del Sol BooksEl regalo de la flor de Nochebuena - The Gift of the Poinsettia, Del Sol BooksEl regalo del lenador - The Woodcutters Gift, Del Sol BooksEsperando a Papa - Waiting for Papa, Del Sol BooksEstrellita en la ciudad grande - Estrellita in the Big City, Del Sol BooksEstrellita se despide de su isla - Estrellita Says Goodbye to Her Island, Del Sol BooksFamilia - Family, Del Sol BooksGirasoles - Sunflowers, Del Sol BooksHola Noche - Hello Night, Del Sol BooksIsabel Allende Recuerdos para un cuento - Isabel Allende Memories for a Story, Del Sol BooksJuan y el Chupacabras - Juan and the Chupacabras, Del Sol BooksLa carrera de Ricardo - Ricardos Race, Del Sol BooksLa fiesta para Papa Luis - The Party for Papa Luis, Del Sol BooksLa guerra de las raspas - The Battle of the Snowcones, Del Sol BooksLa guitarra de mi tata - My Tatas Guitar, Del Sol BooksLa parranda de Mimi - Mimis Parranda, Del Sol BooksLa rana y sus amigos salvan a la humanidad - The Frog and His Friends Save Humanity, Del Sol BooksLas empanadas que hacia la abuela - The Empanadas that Abuela Made, Del Sol BooksLa senora de la panaderia - The Bakery Lady, Del Sol BooksLas sopaipillas de Benito - Benitos Sopaipillas, Del Sol BooksLas tortillas de Magda - Magdas Tortillas, Del Sol BooksLa tierra de las adivinanzas - The Land of the Riddles, Del Sol BooksLa ultima muneca - The Last Doll, Del Sol BooksLa vaca Tomasa - Tomasa the Cow, Del Sol BooksLo que Pepita descubre - Pepita Finds Out, Del Sol BooksLos bizcochitos de Benito - Benitos Bizcochitos, Del Sol BooksLos domingos en la calle cuatro - Sundays on Fourth Street, Del Sol BooksLos recuerdos de Chave - Chaves Memories, Del Sol BooksLos tamales de Ana - Growing Up with Tamales, Del Sol BooksLupe Vargas y su super mejor amiga - Lupe Vargas and Her Super Best Friend, Del Sol BooksMagda y la pinata magico - Magdas Pinata Magic, Del Sol BooksMama Zorra y Don Coyote - Mother Fox and Mr Coyote, Del Sol BooksMariposas en la calle Carmen - Butterflies on Carmen Street, Del Sol BooksMayte y el Cuco - Mayte and the Bogeyman, Del Sol BooksMis abuelos y yo - My Grandparents and I, Del Sol BooksMis papitos Heroes de la cosecha - My Parents Heroes of the Harvest, Del Sol BooksNo hay tiempo para monstruos - No Time for Monsters, Del Sol BooksPachanga deliciosa - Delicious Hullaballo, Del Sol BooksPepita empaca - Pepita Packs Up, Del Sol BooksPepita en la calle Pepper - Pepita on Pepper Street, Del Sol BooksPepita habla dos veces - Pepita Talks Twice, Del Sol BooksPepita y el color rosado - Pepita Thinks Pink, Del Sol BooksPepita siempre tarde - Pepita Takes Time, Del Sol BooksQuiquiriqui - Kikiriki, Del Sol BooksRecordando a Abuela - Remembering Grandma, Del Sol BooksRene tiene dos apellidos - Rene has Two Last Names, Del Sol BooksSalsa, Del Sol BooksSandia Fria - Icy Watermelon, Del Sol BooksSomos primos - We Are Cousins, Del Sol BooksTina y las pieles de espantapajaros - Tina and the Scarecrow Skins, Del Sol BooksUn dia con mis tias - A Day with My Aunts, Del Sol BooksYo soy Rene el nino - I Am Rene the Boy, Del Sol BooksZulema y la bruja lechuza - Zulema and the Witch Owl, Del Sol Books

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