Lucía gives a tour of her family and joy-filled house in a picture book that seamlessly integrates Spanish and English. Lucía’s tour starts with the front door, la puerta, before moving through different spaces (la sala, la cocina, el patio, el baňo, el cuarto de mis hermanos), describing some of the things that happen in each one. She ends with her own bedroom, mi habitación. “Where I get tucked in con todos mis mejores amigos … where the lights get low and my eyelids close. Until I’m ready to wake up again tomorrow. En mi casa. With my favorite people.” Lucía’s family—Mama, Papi, Abuelo and Abuela, los hermanos—clearly make the house a home, one that welcomes her primos and “primos de mis primos de mis primos” and friends and neighbors. This beautiful, racially diverse family that includes Latinx and Afro-Latinx members has Puerto Rican, Cuban and Spanish heritage, for a start. Cheerful watercolor, colored pencil, and digital illustrations are a perfect match for this buoyant narrative. (Ages 3-7)

Lucia invites you to visit her bustling casa and meet an intergenerational array of loved ones in a charming Spanglish celebration of family life.

Este es el baño . . . It’s where I shave my barba con Abuelo.

Bienvenidos to Lucía’s home. Lucía lives in her casa with her big, loud, beautiful familia, and she’s going to show you around! From la puerta, where Abuela likes to wave to the neighbors and wait for packages from Puerto Rico or Spain, to la cocina, where Lucía watches her Mamá turn empty pots into soups and arroces, to el patio, where Lucia and her cousins (and her cousin’s cousins!) put on magic shows, Lucía loves her busy and cozy casa. With warmth and joy, author Laurenne Sala and illustrator Zara González Hoang celebrate home in this bilingual picture book that feels like an abrazo from your most favorite people, your familia.