Love To Mama

Title: Love to Mama
Author: Paula Barragan
Editor: Pat Mora
Illustrator: Paula Barragan
Medium: Acrylic illustrations
Genre: realistic non-fiction poetry
Theme: to show an appreciation of women in the family for what they did to their children.
Summary: Pat edited and contributed to this beautiful and celebratory collection, in total of thirteen poets write with joy, humor, and love about the powerful bond between the women in the family and children. These poets represent a wide spectrum of Latino voices, from award-winning authors to a 15-year-old new talent. The authors write passionately about their cultures such as Puerto Rican, Cuban, Venezuelan, and Mexican American. The undeniable influence of their mothers and grandmothers, for instance
Literary Elements:
Setting: a various of settings: from outside to house( pictures of various related to the poem)
Characterization: the book focuses on the mother and the love that is unconditional. Whatever the children do, the mother will still love their children no matter what they have done from bad to good. When the children did something bad, the mother gets hurt because of that but still love their children regardless.
Plot: there is no plot in the book because it is about poetry. The poetry is about its poem it is more of relaxing feeling when you read the poem.
Style: Humorous. Each line rhymes with each other and is repeated throughout to show how each are connected to each other.
Evaluation: I remember when I was young; I read this book to my mom on the mother’s day. She was very inspired. It is an inspiration book. It is a tribute book to mothers. Despite being aimed at the younger reader, adults will enjoy this collection as they read it to their children because each poem will conjure up memories of the love, joy and comfort given by mothers and grandmothers. Love to Mamá is sure to be embraced and treasured by everyone who wants to recognize mothers as one of our universal role models.