Mango, Abuela, and Me
Bibliography:
Medina, M., Dominguez, A., Amador, B., & Amador, R. (2020). Mango, Abuela, and me. Findaway World, LLC. Plot Summary:
Mia's Abuela is moving in with her and her parents, sharing a room with Mia and her hampster, Edmond. On their first night together, Mia and her Abuela can't talk and connect much because Mia doesn't know much Spanish and her abuela doesn't know much English, but regardless, she shows Mia a picture of her late abuelo and a feather from a bird that used to live in her mango tree. Mia and her Abuela spend time together feeding birds and going on walks, but still cannot talk together much, so Mia's mother reminds her of her friend Kim who also didn't know much English, but in school learned the language and is now a chatty friend of Mia's. So Mia decides to help her Abuela learn English as well as learn some Spanish by placing name cards on everything in the house such as lamps and the TV. the next day, Mia and her mother go to the pet store and find a parrot, they decide to take him home to keep her Abuela company while everyone is out of the house. They name the parrot mango, because his colors resemble the fruit, and he beings to learn English and Spanish with Mia and her Abuela. Mia's Abuela becomes better and better at speaking English and talks with the neighbors, Mia's friends when they show everyone mango and his speaking tricks, and Mia, where they talk and read together every night.
Personal Connection:
This was a sweet and heartwarming book of a girl and her grandma, spending time together and being friends. Growing up, I spent a lot of time with my grandma as my mom worked nights at the hospital and my dad was working at the family mechanic shop. In the summers, I would go to her house every day at 7am and we would play, dance, watch HGTV, and just be together. When my sister and I would spend the night, we would sleep in my mom's old room and after my grandma got ready for bed in her nightgown, she could come in, put a sleep timer on the TV, tuck us in, and then lay at the foot of the bed until we fell asleep. When we woke up in the morning, she would make eggs and toast for me and pancakes for my sister and we had sweet tea because she always had tea in the fridge with sweet-n-low. I loved reading this book just because it reminds me so much of my grandma and how much I miss her and all the wonderful times we spent together when I was younger. We didn't have a language barrier, but she was my best friend, and this book reminds me of our wonderful relationship.
Classroom Connection:
I think this book could be good to use in a language class, specifically in a Spanish class. It could be read in class and then students could talk about why learning a language is important and how some people can use it. This book could also be used for lessons over be cause and effect as well as predicting. An activity for cause and effect could include a graphic organizer or even magnetic cards with causes and effects and the students would pair them together on a whiteboard. For predicting, the class could read this book through a read-aloud and make their own predictions, they could also sit t their desks and listen to a recording of the book, and the teacher could pause and ask the students to write their predictions on a graphic organizer.
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