Grandmother’s Song

A Mexican Indian grandmother can feel the fear in her grandaughter’s bones, so she strokes and hugs her to give her courage, dignity, trust, and skill which the grandaughter eventually passes on to her own grandchildren.

Related: Americas, Fiction, Mexico, Primary (ages 6-9)

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