Michael Genhart

Books by This Author

May Your Life Be Deliciosa

May Your Life Be Deliciosa
Illustrated by: Loris Lora
Age Level: 6-9

Each year on Christmas Eve, Rosie’s abuela, mamá, tía, sister, and cousins all gather together in Abuela’s kitchen to make tamales — cleaning corn husks, chopping onions and garlic, roasting chilis, kneading cornmeal dough, seasoning the filling, and folding it all — and tell stories. Rosie learns from her abuela not only how to make a delicious tamale, but how to make a delicious life, one filled with love, plenty of spice, and family.

Spanish Is the Language of My Family

Boy on stage at a spelling bee
Illustrated by: John Parra
Age Level: 6-9
Language: Spanish

As a boy prepares for his school’s Spanish spelling bee, he asks his grandmother for help with some of the words he doesn’t know how to spell yet. When she studies with him, she tells him how different things were back when she was a girl, when she was only allowed to speak English in school. This only inspires him to study even harder and make his family proud.