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Cultural Curriculum Chat with Jebeh Edmunds
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Season 5 Episode #17 My Papi Has A Motorcycle Book Review
What if you could experience the beauty of family traditions and the cultural richness of a community all through the pages of a book? Join me in this heartwarming episode of the Cultural Curriculum Chat Podcast as we take a magical ride with Daisy Ramona and her father in "My Papi Has a Motorcycle" by Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña. This episode promises to make you feel the essence of Corona, California, from the smell of sawdust on Papi's clothes to the vibrant illustrations that make their motorcycle adventures feel like a superhero movie.
Discover how this Pura Belpré Honor Book celebrates the Latinx community’s contributions to the city’s evolution and the pride that comes with hard work and heritage. We’ll discuss how the five senses are beautifully woven into the narrative, making young readers active participants in the story. Learn about the historical significance of Corona, once the lemon capital of the world, and explore the landmarks and ever-changing landscape through Daisy’s nostalgic eyes. This episode is a touching tribute to the bonds that shape us, the stories that define us, and the communities we cherish. Don’t miss this journey through family, culture, and history!
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Welcome to the Cultural Curriculum Chat Podcast and if you're watching on my YouTube channel, mrs Edmond's Cultural Corner, this is gonna be your gateway today to heartwarming stories that celebrate the beauty of family bonds and cherished memories. So in today's episode we are going to ride along with this enchanted story of Daisy Ramona as she embarks on thrilling adventures around the neighborhood with her poppy. In the story, my Poppy has a Motorcycle. Now you're going to join as we explore this tender relationship between a father and his daughter while discovering the rich history and vibrant culture of their beloved city. So stay tuned to be filled with love and nostalgia and the magic of shared moments when communities change for the good or the better. Let's get into it. Hello everyone, if you are new here, my name is Jebe Edmonds and welcome to the show.
Speaker 1:I love sharing all things multicultural educational books, resources and workplace strategies to create more positive change. So this story we're talking about today is titled my Poppy has a Motorcycle, written by award-winning authors and illustrator Isabel Quintero and Zeke Pena. This is also a Pura Belpre Honor Book Award winner as well. Oh, this book gives me all the feels y'all. It is such an amazing story between Daisy Ramona and her dad. She loves the bond in their everyday tradition of riding Poppy's motorcycle after he gets home from work, after school, and she learns how he is a hard-working man. He is a contractor in their city and in California Corona, california and as soon as she hears his car, his truck, start to come up the driveway, she's ready to go. She's looking and tinkering in all the tools and he's got her special unicorn helmet on and she can just see the. I love doing this book if you're with your students and kind of looking at the five senses and seeing how your students can pick up on the different senses that Daisy is describing on her ride with her father, and I really want you to discuss the five senses with your students when you're reading this book. When she is on the ride along with her father, she talks about, you know, seeing her father covered in sawdust and you know the smells of a hard day's work. So I want your students to be active listeners and active participants in the story by you know, using a thumbs up if they can, you know, figure out one of the senses in the story that Daisy is describing. So, moving on from that, she goes into.
Speaker 1:You know I love the Spanish and English words that are, you know, peppered throughout the book. I love how, you know, just as a mom would say, be careful. You know, con cuidado. You know, be careful. And as dad and daughter are rolling through the driveway and taking off, I just love how this illustration feels like a superhero movie or a superhero cartoon and it just as a flash of lightning, they are on their adventure.
Speaker 1:I love how they talk about the changing of the community, the history. You know how I love a good historical context in a book and it talks about the ever-changing community and the ever-changing community, the community and the ever-changing evolution of what a community, what it was and what it is turning into be. And you're going to see landmarks that she's going to describe her Abuelita's church and going, and you know running into the school librarian and you know learning about where is their favorite places to get toys and shaved ice and the sights and sounds and her even imagining what it was like, you know, at the turn of the century, where you know citrus groves, and I didn't know this. I read the author's note and thank you, isabel about Corona being the lemon capital of the world at the time and how the immigrants that migrated to this part of the country did have a, had a historical race around the famous loop around the town and I really love showing and having that juxtaposition of our students too, to know businesses that have been around for a long time are now shuttering their doors and I wonder what happens to them and their families.
Speaker 1:And showing the hard work of people of the Latinx community in the story of being the builders, the foundation layers of that community and having that pride in their hard work and their history and their ancestry, that pride and their hard work and their history and their ancestry. And it just continues to show the ever-evolving changes of the neighborhood but also the vibrancies, the sights, the sounds, the feels, the laughter, the joy. It is just an amazing story and, like I said, said I don't want to give away too much of the book but I love how you know she's greeted with her abuelito and abuelita. They still have their old yellow house and the seeds of the lemons that abuelito used to pick were far from here. So just showing the connections of this tree in her grandparents home and and where that seed started. You know my mom, it was so sweet, she said when we were together a few weeks ago. We were in Dallas, texas, and there were a bunch of acorns underneath this oak tree and my mom said, oh, that is an oak tree that hasn't been stepped on yet. So, thinking about the lemon seed and how it becomes the lemon tree, those are the things you can depict and share with your students.
Speaker 1:And just, you know the adventure of riding, you know in the back of a motorcycle as a kid and you know meeting. You know her poppies, you know colleagues and listening to the joys and the sounds of the music and the noise of the construction tools and just feeling her imagination just take off, wink, wink. You know I love a good pun and so get this book. It is beautiful, it makes me want to go visit this part of our country and see. But you have Corona, california.
Speaker 1:Read the author's note. I always say this, educators before you make your lesson plan, read the author's note first. You know I was guilty in the beginning of my teaching days where I just find the book I wanted read it real quick and I was making my lesson. But it really gives you wonderful background knowledge about the story and her love letter to the city that she grew up in, and this is just a great book. I highly recommend it.
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