Title: Mama, Where Are You From?
Illustrator: Chris K. Soentpiet
Readability Score: Pre-K-Grade 2
Theme: learning about the history of your family and how much society has changed
Genre: Fiction
Sub genre: Biography
Primary and secondary characters: The mother and her daughter are the primary characters
Awards: N/A
Publishing Company: Scholastic
Date of Publication: 2001
ISBN: 0-439-29144-5
Summary: This book is about a young girl who asks her mother where she is from. The mother begins to tell her how she grew up and what she did on a day to day basis. On Mondays she would wash clothes in the wringer dryer and hang them on the clothesline to dry. She also said she was from different types of beans that she cooked for an hour for her family. She talked about the different people that she would buy fish, ice, and ice cream from as well. The message that I received from this book was that things were very different during the time of when the mother was a young girl. She wants to tell her daughter how things were and about the things that who made her who she is today.
I like this book because it contains a lot of history in how things were "back in the day." Things such as hanging your laundry out to dry instead of using a dryer are what the reader should be aware of. Students can do a compare and contrast on the lifestyles of the two time periods and share them. It also shows how the mother was proud of where she came from, and students should feel the same way about their heritage or cultures as well.
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