Inclusive depiction of a child growing up with relatives in two cultures. The dated reference to a VCR made me laugh, but overall, this is cute and has a lot of Spanish text, which was great.

I love Saturdays y Domingos is a story about a young girl who spends her Saturdays with her grandparents that have a European background and spends her Domingos with her grandparents that have Mexican and Native American background. She speaks about both sides of her family and how she enjoys both. She talk about how each set of grandparents are different in their own way but they are her family. She equally spends time with both and is proud of them. There is no differences between them because on her birthday they all come together to celebrate. It helps teach children understand about cultural diversity and how there are some kids that have different ethnicities and that each one should be respected and celebrated.

I Love Saturdays y Domingos by Alma Flor Ada is a great book. The story is about a young girl’s experiences with her grandparents. On Saturdays, she visits her paternal grandparents who are European American and on Sunday, she visits her maternal grandparents who are Mexican-American. The two sets of grandparents are different but the same at the same time, which is the love for their granddaughter. On Saturdays she tells her experiences in English and on Sundays she tell us her experiences in Spanish. This both shows us a young girl with a multicultural family and the love the entire extended family has for one another. The grandparents have different traditions and she shows how she appreciates both of them. This book compares and contrasts the different cultures and it provides a good message for children, which is, acceptance. This book is great because of the colors and pictures that the children can relate to. Also, this book contains great Spanish vocabulary and has simple sentences that children can read and understand.

I love this adorable bilingual story! Often stories written in two or more languages just have the same words written in both languages, first one and then repeated in the other. I loved the way the little girl does similar activities with her grandma and grandpa and her abuelito and abuelita. You still get the language but you don't sacrifice any of the storyline! I especially loved when she talked about each of her grandparent's ancestry. So so cute!

This book was very refreshing. The title inferences that the book is in English but also in Spanish. The book tells the story of a little girl who has grandparents from different cultures. On Saturdays, she goes to visit her father's parents who are from an English background. She explains what they do such as, eating pancakes and watching the circus on tv. She loves these grandparents very much and respects where they come from, her great-great grandmother was a teacher. On Sundays, or Domingos in Spanish, she visits her mother's parents who are of Spanish and Native American backgrounds. She explains the language used and how they teach her about huevos rancheros and keeping chickens. The story ends with her having a birthday party and both sets of grandparents are in attendance. She is a very happy, loved litte girl.
I enjoyed this book and think that it would be beneficial to any cross cultural lesson that involved Spanish heritage. The illustration throughout the book were very colorful and showed the difference in cultures easily. The use of the Spanish language when describing her time with her Abuelita and Abuelito, really allows you to emurse yourself in the story. I beleive this would also be beneficial to ESL students who are learning about the American grandma and grandpas.

One of my favorite books ever! On Saturdays our narrator visits her grandma and grandpa, and on Sunday she visits with her abuelo y abuelita. Half of the story is in English, and half in Spanish. This is a great story for children who come from multicultural families. Also, this is a great book to have in classrooms, because spanish speakers can practice their english, and english speakers can practice their spanish.

Multicultural families are common in classrooms and everyday life. I love Saturdays y Domingos shows how a young girl has grandparents from two different cultures and appreciates them both by celebrating either Saturday or Sundays with each pair of grandparents. One pair of grandparents are from Eastern Europe and the other are Mexican-American. This book exemplifies that although families may come in different shapes, colors, cultures, languages, backgrounds, etc, no matter what you love them and learn from them.
A lot of students can identify with the characters in the book because many students may be multicultural, bilingual, biracial, etc. It teaches students to learn and be fair with their classmates whose families may look, talk, or act different than theirs.

Both the text (the narrative) and the colourfully fun illustrations are evocative and engaging, a heartwarming presentation and depiction of a loving inter- and multiethnic extended family. The voice of the young narrator (a little girl who spends Saturdays with her European-American paternal grandparents and Sundays, los domingos, with her Mexican-American maternal grandparents) shines brightly and demonstrates the child's love and affection for both sets of grandparents, and the love the entire extended family has for one another. Although the grandparents do have some different cultural traditions, it is clearly demonstrated that while cultural differences do exist, they are often only skin-deep; both sets of grandparents also have a great deal in common.

This would be a wonderful book to share with children whose families are multiethnic, or with children who are interested in knowing more about their own families' ethnic backgrounds. I could also imagine using the book in a pre-school or grade one to three classroom setting, perhaps for a social studies or immigration unit.

The little girl's descriptions of her Sundays (her domingos) with her Mexican-American maternal grandparents contain quite a number of Spanish words and expressions. Personally, I love this aspect of the book, as I think it makes the story much more authentic-sounding (it would also be strange, indeed, if the narrative were to feature only English words and expressions, as this might give a false impression of implied superiority of the English language, of European-American culture). As a person who loves languages, I really enjoyed not only the liberal use of Spanish throughout the text, but also trying to figure out the meanings of the Spanish words and expressions, and their English counterparts (for the most part, I was quite successful). However, I do wish that Alma Flor Ada had provided a Spanish/English glossary at the back of the book. Some of the Spanish vocabulary and expressions were/are not all that easy to figure out from just the context of the narrative itself and could likely prove a bit confusing and frustrating for both children and adults who do not speak or read Spanish, or whose knowledge of Spanish is limited.

1. This book is about a child and her love for Saturdays and Sundays. She loves these two days because they are spent with her grandparents. On Saturdays she spends her day with her dads parents which have an american background, and on Sundays she spends it with her moms parents who have a Spanish background. This book compares the way things are done at both grandparents, and how she loves both cultures. At the end the entire family comes together as one to celebrate her birthday.
2. 2-4th
3. Reading/carpet
4. Students who wants to learn Spanish would enjoy this book.
5. In groups the students can talk about the different cultures in their family and if they do different things with different parts of their family.
6. As a whole class the teacher could use this as a diversity lesson and teach the students how to sing happy birthday in Spanish.
7. Alma Flor Ada has several childrens books written!!
8. I only found this book in hard copy.

This book was featured as one of the selections for the September 2011 Grandparents-themed reads for the Picture-Book Club in the Children's Books Group here at Goodreads.

I had actually placed this on my to-read list way back in April, based on a recommendation by Gundula. I hadn't gotten around to it until just now, though. It's a very interesting story and depicts the different tastes, cultures, and histories of a little girl's two sets of grandparents. In this story, she spends Saturdays with one set and Sundays (or domingos) with the other.

She loves them both very much and enjoys spending time with them. It depicts them as having similar interests (like circuses, pets and fish), although different in a lot of ways, too. One set of grandparents seems to be more active and outdoorsy than the other and that could serve as an opportunity to explain to young children that some grandparents are more healthy and mobile than others.

Overall, we liked this story and we enjoyed reading it together. The illustrations were very nice and we loved that the grandparents were so actively involved in their granddaughter's life.

This book was also selected for the November 2014 Dual/Multi Language stories for the Picture-Book Club in the Children's Books Group here at Goodreads.

The little girl in this story visits her Grandma and Grandpa on Saturdays and her Abuelito y Abuelita on los domingos (Sundays). This book cleverly incorporates Spanish words by doing a kind of parallel story where the girl does something on Saturday (in English) and then on los domingos we see a similar activity or subject reflected but with Spanish words. Through it all, though, is the love she has for (and receives from) both sets of grandparents. In the end, a birthday party brings them all together, too. A very sweet and engaging story.

“I love Saturdays and Domingos” by Alma Flor Ada
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Grade: K-3rd

Being able to celebrate your culture and learn about it from your grandparents is wonderful. This story follows a little girl who shows us how she spends her weekends with her European-American grandparents and her Mexican-American grandparents. She takes us through her weekends with each set of grandparents as she visits their houses. We learn how they say hello to each other and what her favorite breakfast is that each grandmother makes. Throughout the story we learn that both sets of her grandparent’s lives are extremely similar even though they come from separate backgrounds. Finally, it is her birthday and all of her family including both sets of grandparents come to celebrate the wonderful day. Her grandparents work together to make her birthday a special day by combining both of their cultures.

This book would be a wonderful aid in the classroom. The first place it could be used it to talk about cultural identities or backgrounds. “I Love Saturday and Domingos” is a great book to introduce the idea of culture and have students begin a project about their cultural identities. Knowing where your ancestors came from and celebrating your heritage it very special. This book is also wonderful because it shows how similar various cultures are to each other. On every page there is one paragraph that describes what she does with one set of grandparents and another paragraph which discusses something similar she does with the other set of grandparents. This would be a great book to discuss classroom community and how even though we all come from different places we are quite similar. Last, this book would be great for learning compare and contrast while using Venn diagrams. Each page could be used as a separate diagram. The activities she does with her grandparents are very similar but the language is one thing that is different. There are many uses for this book in the classroom.

This is a Wow book because of the amazing detail in the illustrations and the wonderful story the book portrays. I really enjoy how each page shows the story of her weekends with her grandparents and how similar they are to each other. Most people would believe that the cultures are so different so her days could not be similar but this book is a wonderful explanation of how similar various cultures can be.