Grandma Fina loves her yellow umbrella, but everybody else thinks it's old and raggedy.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz and Geronimo Garcia team up to tell us the story of Grandma Fina and her yellow umbrella. It's a sweet and delicious story that will nurture an appreciation for people of different cultures and ages. It goes like this: One day Grandma Fina is walking down the cozy streets of her neighborhood and shading herself from the summer sun with her yellow umbrella. She loves her yellow umbrella. As she goes along, she greets her son and daughter, her grandchildren and her neighbors. Everyone loves to stop and chat with Grandma Fina, but they all secretly think that her torn and ragged yellow umbrella needs to be replaced by a brand new one. They each decide that they will get her a special umbrella for her birthday. But what will Grandma Fina do with nine new umbrellas when she already has her wonderful yellow umbrella?