Mommy, tell me why did you come here!

Book excerpt: “Mamá Cuéntame Porqué Viniste!” scaffolds the telling of the story of why a Latinoamerican mother would take on the journey of migration. In a colorful, heartfelt and developmentally sensitive way this book helps mothers to tell their young children about their origins, their dreams and how their unconditional love brought them to the United States in the hopes of creating the life of safety, peace, promise and abundance any parent would want to give to his child. This book explores the psychological themes and experiences of immigrant mothers introduced by the author in her first book, “Mamá Cuéntame Porqué Viniste!”