{"id":37466,"date":"2015-07-16T10:02:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=37466"},"modified":"2015-07-16T10:03:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:03:06","slug":"mango-abuela-med-medina-illustrated-angela-dominguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/mango-abuela-med-medina-illustrated-angela-dominguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Mango, Abuela, and Me by Med Medina, illustrated by Angela Dominguez"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mango,<\/a>Sometime in the winter, Mia’s “far-away grandmother” arrives to live with her\u00a0family. “‘Abuela belongs with us now,\u2019” her mother explains. On the first evening together, Mia realizes Abuela “can’t unlock the English words,” but at least they can communicate over two treasures Abuela pulls out to share: a parrot feather and a photo of Mia’s late grandfather.<\/p>\n

With all the time the two spend together, conversations continue to prove challenging: “My\u00a0espa\u00f1ol\u00a0<\/em>is not good enough to tell her the things an\u00a0abuela<\/em> should know. Like I am the very best in art and how I can run as fast as the boys.” As for Abuela, “her English is too\u00a0poquito<\/em> to tell me all the stories I want to know about Abuelo and\u00a0the rivers that\u00a0run right outside their door.”<\/p>\n

When Mia whisper-confesses to her mother, “‘Abuela and I can’t understand each other,\u2019” Mami reminds Mia\u00a0how not so long ago the “whole class helped teach [Mia’s best friend] English words.” The next day, while making meat pies with Abuela, Mia is\u00a0inspired to purposefully, methodically increase both their vocabularies: dough, masa<\/em>; meat,\u00a0carne<\/em>;\u00a0raisins,\u00a0pasas<\/em>. In a moment of thoughtful brilliance, Mia convinces her mother to bring Mango into the family\u00a0\u2013 that\u00a0loro<\/em>\u00a0proves to just what the family needed!<\/p>\n

Award-winning Cuban American writer Meg Medina<\/a>\u00a0(2014 Pura Belpr\u00e9<\/a>-winning Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass<\/a><\/em>) crafts a captivating multi-generational story about finding new ways to communicate when words are not quite enough. Heartwarming and entertaining, it’s also realistic and informative for extended families with immigrant members.\u00a0Medina’s warm text is endearingly complemented by Mexican American artist Angela Dominguez<\/a>\u00a0whose versatile style is especially effective in revealing\u00a0emotions, from concern to disappointment to determination and gratitude to relief and delight, and so much more\u00a0\u2013 and not just in her human subjects, because charming\u00a0Mango proves to be quite the expressive character, too! Dominguez adds important narrative enhancements: that Edmund the hamster and Mango both spend at least as much time out of their cages as in them, that Mia lives in a diverse neighborhood and has friends of various backgrounds, and \u2013 most notably for some of us \u2013 that Abuela is a serious reader of really thick books. Oh, the joyous power of books … like this!<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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