Lissette Norman

Gr 2–4—Yesenia is a small girl who narrates everything plátanos stand for in her family from the Dominican
Republic. Of course, Norman and Palacios ensure that readers are desperately hungry when they close this book,
but they also elevate a comfort food to a cultural icon, a path to memory, and a welcome home.

This book with work well for a read along with primary aged students or for independent reading for intermediate students. The story follows the daughters perspective of her the cooking traditions her family follows using plantains. This books shows a Dominican republic culture while living in the US. Could use this in a class to talk about cooking traditions.

Sadie likes living in her grandmother’s brownstone, where she has her own bedroom and a backyard to play in. She’s full of thoughts and has lots to say about her family and friends, her home, her hair, and her laughing feet that can’t keep still. And when she grows up she plans on being a poet.
This collection of sixteen exuberant poems in the voice of a young Dominican American girl and energetic, bright paintings celebrates Sadie’s family and the city around her.

This is a book of cute poems with beautiful illustrations about a dreamy, loving, loud girl who lives in Harlem.