With Lots of Love

Reviewed by Estella Frias

Review Source: Reading Is Resistance
Book Author: Jenny Torres Sanchez

She missed Abuela’s warm tortillas and the way they smelled sweet and fresh, like the damp earth after a soft rain. She missed the pretty song of her language.

With Lots of Love tells Rocio’s riveting story about the struggle and newness of immigrating and trying to make a new home for herself. It celebrates Mexican culture and highlights the wonderful parts of her life that she had to leave behind, as well as the parts that she takes with her — the parts that nobody can take from her. From her grandma’s tortillas to the view of the night sky, she recounts the things that she will miss and the experiences that will remain in her heart and life. Her grandmother sends her items that make her feel at home and helps Rocio realize that love and the beauty of her culture are things that transcend the limits of time and space. Continue reading at Reading is Resistance.

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With Lots of Love by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Published by Penguin on March 8, 2022
Genres: Grandparents and Elders, Immigration and Emigration
Pages: 32
Reading Level: Grade K, Grades 1-2
ISBN: 9780593464953
Review Source: Reading Is Resistance

Publisher's Synopsis: A beautiful, lyrical story about a girl who moves from her home in Central America to the United States, and everything she leaves behind and longs for — especially her Abuela — as she makes a new life.

Rocio has grown up in Central America, but now she and her family are moving to the United States. Rocio does her best to adjust to a new way of living, but there are many things she misses from her old life — Abuela’s cooking, Abuela’s pinata creations, Abuela’s warm hugs, and of course, Abuela herself most of all. But Abuela finds a way to send Rocio something special just in time for her birthday — a gift wrapped with lots of love — and that fills Rocio to the brim.