Mamá's Panza
by Isabel Quintero (Author) Iliana Galvez (Illustrator)
A body-positive picture book about a young boy's love for his mother and his mother's belly.
Everyone has a panza--it can be big and round, soft and small, or somewhere in between. But a young boy's favorite panza of all is Mamá's. Her panza is capable of remarkable things, and she loves it as an important part of herself. Her panza was also his first home. Even before he was born, it cradled and held him. When he's feeling shy and needs a place to hide or when he wants somewhere to rest during a bedtime story, Mamá's panza is always there.
With affirming text by Isabel Quintero and vivid art by Iliana Galvez, Mamá's Panza is a young boy's love letter to his mother, along with a celebration of our bodies and our bellies.
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A sweet, body-positive celebration of motherhood and its physical expression.
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A child expresses appreciation for a favorite belly--their Mamá's panza--in this tender, body-neutral telling. Though panzas can be "big, round, soft, or small and hard, or somewhere in between," everyone has one, and the child narrator's loves their mother's best. It was the youth's "first home" ("a big round garden" that communicated, "Here we are. Make some room. We've got growing to do"), and the scene of first communications between them. Now, Mamá's panza is "a drum I like to play"--an action that precedes "my panza's turn to be a drum," and a loving game of chase between the two. Galvez's uncomplicated digital illustrations render the duo, who cue as Latinx, amid blooming flower motifs in largely domestic scenes that underline the book's comfortable interpersonal feel. A Spanish edition publishes simultaneously. Ages 3-7. (Mar.)
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JUV039140 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
JUV011030 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
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