This is an excellent book about cultural differences. The main character spends the weekends with her grandparents, Sundays with her father's parents and Domingos (Sundays) with her mother's parents. On Saturdays she speaks English and on domingos se hablan español. Although the activities are basically the same at each house, they are viewed differently from each cultural perspective. The little girl is used to switching between languages like a lot of children with multicultural families.

The book is written half in English but the dialogue with the hispanic grandparents is in Spanish. This book shows how normal it is for kids to know two languages and helps kids who do not have this kind of household understand that. The illustrations focus on the subjects rather than the landscape and the majority of each page is white and then there is a free standing illustration. The illustrations are realistic drawings that look like the illustrator used color pencils.

Overall, the book is very well written and would be interesting for all kids.

Copyright date: 2002
Awards: ILA notable Books for a Global Society
Genre: bilingual, picture children’s book

A great bilingual book, English and Spanish about a young girl who visit her Europe-American grandparents on Saturdays and her Mexican-Native American grandparents on los domingos, she learns a lot about her ethnic background and shares her love of spending time with her grandma, grandpa, Abuelito y abuelita on the weekends. I will definitely share this book in my future classroom when speaking about different cultures and ethnic groups, and this will be a great book for a Spanish speaking student that is learning English, an ELL.

This book is about a young girl who comes from parents of different ethnic backgrounds. Because of this, she spends Saturday with her English-speaking grandparents and Domingo (Sunday) with her Spanish-speaking grandparents. The young girl discusses the different things she does with each pair of grandparents, such as the breakfast items her grandmothers make, what each grandma collects, what she does with each grandpa, etc. You can see that although her grandparents have different ethnic backgrounds throughout the story, they still love her the same. I can connect with the young girl in the story because I too have English speaking and Spanish speaking grandparents. I would use this book to add some diversity into my library and help make my Spanish-speaking students feel like they have books that will help them with their English and help them practice reading in Spanish. I will also share my connection with my students and ask if they can also connect with her.

Love overflows in "I Love Saturdays y domingos." A little girl describes her weekends–Saturdays spent with one set of grandparents, of European decent, and domingos spent with her grandparents of Mexican decent. The book follows a pattern, showing her routines and rituals at one house, then showing the corresponding ones at the next. But not for a second do these loves seem to be competing with each other. That’s the wonderful thing about love. The little protagonist doesn’t have to choose. She can revel in every ounce of it. She can love Grandma’s breakfast of pancakes and eggs and Abuelita’s breakfast of huevos rancheros and papaya juice. She can peer into Grandpa’s fishtank and dip her feet in the seawater with Abuelito. She can have the “Happy Birthday” song and Las mañanitas. She can learn and feel proud of her heritage from each of these people who love and care for her.

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What a heart warming story! Perfect for a read aloud in the younger grades. This is a story of a girl born into a bi-racial family and a story of her relationship with two sets of her grandparents; Hispanic grandparents and those of European descent. In "I Love Saturdays y Domingos" we learn how differently you can spent your time with your loved ones of a different ethnic background, but how similar at the same time. This story sends one clear message, regardless of our racial or ethnic backgrounds we are all the same: we want to be loved and we want to love. The little girl's grandparents also show us that despite our differences we can work together. They do so by getting together to get perfect gifts for their mutual grandchild. This book also makes a positive point about being bilingual and bicultural, the girl is very proud to be so. With so many children born into biracial families I find this to be a very important message. Furthermore, this message is as important to children born to one racial families or to those belonging to the "majority."

The book is about a little girl who has Mexican Grandparents and European Grandparents. She spends Saturdays with her European Grandparents and Domingos ( Sundays) with her Mexican Grandparents. The book is in part English and Part Spanish. It follows a little girl and the two culturally different lives she leads. This is a good book to use in a classroom to teach Spanish and multicultural education. Kids who grow up in a multicultural household can really relate to the book and it teaches others about different peoples and cultures.

Good for portraying bilingual and biracial families (Latino/Anglo) and for parallel language exposure for both English & Spanish speakers(not bilingual). However, the portrayal of the 2 families is kind of stereotypically odd in some examples in that the Latino family does things "naturally" and the anglo family has 2nd hand experiences, as in the anglos watch a circus on TV and the latinos go to the real circus. The family experiences come together well at the end for a birthday party, so overall a good choice.

This is a bilingual fiction book where a young Mexican-American girl celebrates the similarities and differences between her English-speaking and Spanish-speaking grandparents. This book explores the importance of both parents and grandparents, different days of the week, biracial children and families, and both the American and Mexican culture. She moves with ease through both cultures, which embraces a child's involvement in dual cultures. "All about me" theme--it also introduces several Spanish words throughout the book for the students to be introduced to.

I expected to like this more than I did. It's a cute little book, but when I imagined buying it to read it to my grandson (who has both Caucasian and Latino grandparents), it didn't seem quite right. The Caucasian grandmother's grandmother's parents in a covered wagon to California? The years don't add up quite right for that. And the lucky situation of living near enough all 4 grandparents to see both sets each week and have everyone come to a birthday party? Not common for many youngsters these days.

Nevertheless, the comingling of the languages is done well, and the entire book is equally respectful of both traditions. I'd actually recommend it more for children who need the exposure to ethnic variety rather than those who are already living it.

I really enjoyed reading this book about a girl who spends her Saturdays with Grandma and Grandpa, who come from a European-American back-ground, and on Sundays (los domingos) she visits Abuelito y Abuelita, who are Mexican-American. The book shows how she spends her days differently with each set of grandparents and how they are similar but different. On her birthday they all come together and celebrate the love they have for their granddaughter. I chose this book as part of my text set because it incorporates both the hispanic and American culture and shows the similarities and differences. The genre of this book fiction. This is a high quality book that is developmentally appropriate for elementary school age children. I would read this to the class for a read aloud.
Genre- Fiction

This book is appropriate for ages 4 to 8 in early childhood classrooms. The book “I love Saturday” talks about the little girl visits her European-American paternal grandpa and grandma. They are always happy to see her. Grandma serves me breakfast such milk, scrambled, eggs, and pancakes. On Sunday, she visits her Mexican-American maternal grandparents. This book shows some cultural differences between grandparents, but it is not important at all. They have great deal in common is love. This book includes colorfully images to show a big warm family. It teaches children that love is more important than culture. It also encourages children that spent more time to play with their grandparents. Whatever which they are in, they are always love grandchildren very much and happy to see them.

This is a great Latino book that can easily be used in a classroom when introducing the study of Spanish and Latino culture. The story is told by a little girl who talks about her Saturday's that she spends with her English speaking grandparents on one side of her family and spending Domingos or Sundays with her Spanish speaking grandparents on the other side of her family. She compares the two experiences and uses Spanish phrases to describe her Sundays. The Spanish phrases mirror the English phrases she uses when talking about her Saturdays so it is easy for kids to understand what the Spanish phrases mean without having a direct translation. This is great multicultural book that can easily spark a conversation about different languages and different cultures for children.