Author: Juana Martinez- Neal
A girl with a really long name wants to know the reason behind her long name. Her dad goes about explaining the story behind each person whose name is a part of her name. What follows is a wonderful passing down of family heritage and how we all really are standing on the shoulders of giants. As a child born in America to immigrant parents I often feel my kids lack the grounding in their own heritage and culture (mea culpa), this book provided me with an opportunity to talk about my daughter’s grand parents, great grand parents. There is even some spanish thrown in alongside some of the images and my daughter is naturally curious about languages, so we did read a few words of spanish as well
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