Cuando Yo Sea Grande—When I Grow Up
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Cuando yo sea grande, yo quiero ser como mi mamá.
Mi mamá lee libros.
Mi mamá me ayuda a leer libros.
¡A mi me encanta leer libros!
Cuando yo sea grande, yo le voy a enseñar a mi hermano a leer libros.
When I grow up I want to be like my mother.
My mother reads books.
My mother helps me read books.
I love to read books!
When I grow up, I am going to teach my brother how to read books.
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About the Book
A young girl finds each day filled with astonishing opportunities to learn from her different family members, and she reciprocates by passing along those new skills to younger family and friends.
Cuando Yo Sea Grande—When I Grow Up, a bilingual pattern book by author Virginia L. Cárdenas, illustrates the power of the extended Latino family as a curious and hardworking little girl learns countless lessons, including the love of books from her mother, the thrill of riding a bicycle without training wheels from her father, and how to make her grandmother’s delicious empanadas from her abuela.
Each family member helps the little girl by teaching her new lessons, new skills, and old traditions. By watching, listening, and learning lifelong lessons that are passed from one generation to another, she embraces the opportunity to learn and to teach.
Cuando Yo Sea Grande—When I Grow Up offers a tool for parents and teachers who want to teach languages, culture, and the power of learning from others.
About the Author
Virginia L. Cárdenas grew up in Quito, Ecuador, in a large, loving, and bilingual family. As an educator, she has always marveled at how readily children learn language when provided with rich language models. Cárdenas and her husband, Deo, live in Raleigh, North Carolina.