Little Mama Forgets

Title: Little Mama Forgets

Author: Robin Cruise

Illustrator: Stacey Dressen-McQueen

Genre: Fiction 

Little Mama Forgets is about a little girl named Lucy and her grandmother named Luciana Maria Isabela Galvez-Molinero  (little mama).  The two of them along with the other members in the family live in California but originated from Mexico.  Therefore, they remain true to their roots and continue to make their own tortillas and dance and sing in Spanish. That’s just a few of their traditions they still practice. Little mama is forgetful and Lucy helps her with her everyday happenings and events.  However, little mama can remember long term, it’s the short term she struggles with.  Lucy does her best to make sure her grandmother is safe by helping her on a daily basis. 

I would read this book to a fourth grade classroom.  The readers can learn responsibility as well as compassion by reading this book.  Lucy does a great job of not being burdened by the situation and embracing it, which says a lot about a persons character!