New Release from Author, Pat Mora
Long, long, long ago, Bella and her grandmother Mamá Alma admired
their vegetable garden. They liked gardening together. They grew
sunflowers and lilies too, and chatted with lizards and hummingbirds.
They walked around the flowers and vegetables holding hands, something
they had done frequently since Bella was a baby. As her grandmother
aged, Bella helped her to walk. “Every year, I need your help more and
more,” said Mamá Alma.
In this special bilingual picture book for children, author Pat Mora
creates an origin myth in which she imagines how the Mexican custom of
remembering deceased loved ones—
El día de los muertos or the
Day of the Dead—came to be. With tender illustrations by Robert Casilla
that depict Bella and Mamá Alma’s loving relationship, this book will
encourage children to honor loved ones, whether by writing stories and
poems or creating their own remembering place.
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