With the birth of my daughters, I realized that there was a tremendous need for books for children like my own daughters. Children that are born here in America — in the United States of America — from Latina parents. And my first thought living in El Paso, Texas back then, I remember this very clearly, was I’m gonna go to the public library and check out a book for my daughters.
Looking for a book that would have all the songs and the rhymes and the childhood games that I used to play in the island of Puerto Rico, the songs and rhymes that my mother taught me, that my grandma sang to me, the lullabies she sang to me when I was a little girl. And I couldn’t find a book like that in the public library, neither could I find it in the bookstore.
So that’s when I realized if I need a book like this for my daughters, there must be other mothers like myself that need this kind of book. And that gave birth to the line of book that I have done for a number of years now, that are books that celebrate my Latina heritage.