Our Mothers' Names: Love in Many Languages by Uma Menon

Our Mothers' Names: Love in Many Languages by Uma Menon

How many ways are there to say mother? A bilingual child investigates in this joyful picture-book exploration from the creators of My Mother's Tongues.

"Thank you, Amma," says the child as her mother praises a birdhouse she's making with her friend Angelina. With two languages spoken at home, English and Malayalam (the most common language in Kerala, India, where her parents and grandparents were born), Amma is a word the child uses for her Indian-American mom. But Angelina, whose family is from Mexico City, says that her mother is called Mamá. And there are so many other names for mother! Thea's mother is Greek and known as Mana. Francisco's family is from Brazil, where moms answer to Mãe. Aliya is fluent in Arabic, whose word for mother is Umma. . . . With just a peek at the many ways to say mother among the world's thousands of languages, the author and illustrator behind My Mother's Tongues have fashioned another love letter to family bonds and heritage, another salute to multilingualism for a world that grows smaller and more connected day by day.

Menon, Uma: - Uma Menon is a high school student from Winter Park, Florida. She is the 2019-2020 Youth Fellow for the International Human Rights Art Festival and the founder of IHRAF Publishes--Youth. HANDS FOR LANGUAGE is her debut book and was shortlisted by the 2019 International Erbacce-Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781536222500
ISBN 10	153622250X
Title	Our Mothers' Names: Love in Many Languages
Author	Uma Menon
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Candlewick Press,U.S.
Year published	2025-04-22
Number of pages	32
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.