GRANDMA, WHERE WILL YOUR LOVE GO? / ABUELA, ¿A DÓNDE IRÁ TU AMOR?

By Adriana Camacho-Church

Illustrations by Gastón Hauviller

 

ISBN: 978-1-55885-984-5

Publication Date: October 31, 2023

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 32

Imprint: Piñata Books

Ages: 4-8

 

The joy of intergenerational relationships is explored in this bilingual picture book.

 

“Grandma and I dance together, sew together, bake together and go to the market together.”

 

This engaging picture book depicts the loving relationship between a young girl and her grandmother and the girl’s growing realization that her grandmother will not always be physically present. Her beloved abuela “walks slower, sits longer and takes more medicine.”

 

Abuela comforts her granddaughter by using nature’s beauty, power and mystery to reassure her that life continues—and so does love. The child will feel her touch in the sun’s warmth and her kiss in each raindrop. When the wind lifts her hair, she will know her grandmother is there. The beauty of sunlit dragonflies and the smell of baked bread will be reminders of her love. “Feel my love in the power of waterfalls,” Grandma says. “Feel it in a moonlit darkness and in the sprout from a seed.” The love they share will surround her always.

 

With beautiful illustrations by Gastón Hauviller depicting a child enjoying activities with a special adult, this bilingual book about loss, healing and a unique bond will connect children to the idea that we come from and return to nature. Kids will eagerly recount—or even write about—their favorite memories of time spent with a beloved family member or friend.

 

“This is more than a bilingual book for children. It reaches to the core of our need to understand those we love… The tenderness and the compassion in this book acknowledges that love can be expressed and remains eternal.”—Robert Abel Jr., MD, author of Lumi’s Book of Eyes

 

 

ADRIANA CAMACHO-CHURCH was born in Colombia and grew up in Chicago and Los Angeles. She currently lives and works in Delaware. This is her first book.

 

GASTÓN HAUVILLER, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has lived in many countries. He has worked as an illustrator and children’s book author for more than 20 years and his work has been recognized in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, the United States, France and China. His children’s books include Viajeros extraordinarios / Roque (Ediciones TTT, 2019) and ¿Un mundo? Muchos mundos (Editorial Océano Travesía, 2016).