My Mother's Tongues Life Cycles With playful rhyming text from

With playful rhyming text from award-winning poet Susan Musgrave and gorgeous illustrations by Esperança Melo

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My Mother's Tongues Life Cycles With playful rhyming text fromIn a sparkling debut authored by a sixteen year old daughter of immigrants, this ode to the power of multilingualism gives voice to the lasting benefits of speaking with more than one tongue. Sumis mother can speak two languages, Malayalam and English. And she can switch between them at the speed of sound: one language when talking to Sumis grandmother, another when she addresses the cashier. Sometimes with Sumi she speaks a combination of both. Could