Amada and her family build a chicken coop, hoping that her grandmother, visiting from Mexico, will enjoy raising the chickens and be distracted from her grief at Grandfather’s death.

 

• ISBN: 9780892391905
• Author: Perez, Amada Irma
• Illustrator: Gonzalez, Maya Christina
• Published: 2007 , Children's Book Press
• Themes: Birds, Chickens, Death and dying, Grief, Mexican-American, Surprise
• Descriptors: Latinx in US, Mexico, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction, United States
• No. of pages: 32