I Love Saturdays y Domingos by Alma Flor Ada is a story of a young girl who enjoys a diverse family background. She has English-speaking and Spanish-speaking grandparents. It shows two very different cultures and all the fun times and love that comes with both. I enjoyed this book very much because it does include Spanish words that you can share with your students. It compares the two backgrounds not only with language, but it also describes the different foods, different pets, different hobbies, and many other differences between the cultures. The grandparents enjoy many of the same things, but enjoy them a little differently. One set of grandparents are American whose family came here long ago from Europe and California. The other set is a combination of two people, one who came from Mexico and the other who is Native-American. These diverse backgrounds show so much culture in the book. The book ends describing the young girl's birthday party. She has such a large and unique family, but they all love her and that is what is so important. This book would be a great way to engage your student(s) in conversation about how different we are from our friends and sometimes even in our own family. I think this book would call for a little debriefing and conversation, but it is a great way to share the benefits of different cultures with the students.
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