Nana's Big Surprise / Nana, ¡qué Sorpresa!

Bilingual English/Spanish. Amada and her brothers try to comfort their grandmother, Nana, who has come to stay with them in the US from Mexico after abuelo passes away.

About the author

Amada Irma Pérez is a third-grade teacher in Oxnard, California, and a leading advocate of programs encouraging multicultural understanding. Like many of her students, Amada Irma was born in Mexico and came to the United States as a young child. My Very Own Room is based on her own family story. She lives with her family in Ventura, California.
Maya Gonzalez is an award-winning children's book artist, author, activist and progressive educator. Their work addresses systemic inequity in relation to race/ethnicity, sexism, and cissexism using children's books as radical agents of change and healing, both personally and culturally. Gonzalez co-founded Reflection Press, a POC, queer and trans owned independent publishing house that uses holistic, nature-based, and anti-oppression frameworks in their books and materials for kids and grown-ups. They are also the creator of the Gender Wheel, a tool to express the dynamic, infinite and inclusive reality of gender, and provides lectures and workshops to educators, parents and caregivers. Visit them online at mayagonzalez.com.

Product details

• Authors: Amada Irma Perez, Amada Perez, Amada Irma Perez
• Assisted by: Maya Gonzalez (Illustration), Maya Christina Gonzalez (Illustration)
• Publisher: Lee & Low Books
• Languages: English, Spanish
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 10
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9780892393077
• ISBN: 978-0-89239-307-7
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 207 mm x 241 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 127 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Children's Books / Ages 4-8 Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino