Authors: Carmen Lomas Garza, Carmen Lomas Garza, David Schecter
ISBN-13: 9780892391387, ISBN-10: 0892391383
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Children's Book Press
Date Published: June 1997
Edition: Spanish Language Edition
Following the best-selling Family Pictures, In My Family/En mi familia is Carmen Lomas Garza's continuing tribute to the family and community that shaped her childhood and her life. Lomas Garza's vibrant paintings and warm personal stories depict memories of growing up in the traditional Mexican-American community of her hometown of Kingsville, Texas.
This is a delightful story of two mice who declaim their love for each other by comparing it to a different number of animals. "My love for you ... is heftier than 9 hippos" offers a spread filled with the requisite number of hippos which are imaginatively stacked on top of each other in three hefty piles. It's a warm, funny, and humorous counting lesson.