A heart warming comic book that not only illustrates the precious and beautiful relationship between a daughter and her mother, but also underscores the importance of patient and encouraging parenting. As is the case with every growing child, the daughter’s aspirations and ambitions change every single day almost and her mother unrelentingly keeps encouraging her. For example when the little girl says that she is going to be a veterinarian in future, her mother urges her to demonstrate empathy towards animals.

When the daughter’s concentration shifts to becoming a gymnast, her mother exclaims in delight that she would be seeing her on television. When she wants to be a teacher, Mommy instructs her to teach her students “kindness and strength”. But ultimately her mother teaches her always to remain true to herself and ends by saying whatever she aspires to be, she will always be her loving daughter.

(“Mommy Look at Me!” by Alexandra Santana is published by Indigo River Publishing and will be available for sale on the 22nd of February, 2022)

A very cute story of a young girl who can imagine lots of fun roles for herself and her future! Her mother is wonderfully affirming and encouraging as she tries on the possibilities of princess, teacher, veterinarian, etc. This would be a lovely start to a conversation with students about who they dream about being one day.

The book contains the story in both English and Spanish, which is a great feature. The illustrations are simple but bright and cheerful. This would be an excellent circle time read and a good addition to pre-K and elementary school and classroom libraries.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

There is nothing so deep and meaningful in this world as a mother's love for their children. This is a beautifully illustrated book that shows the love and the efforts of a mother to empower her daughter and teach her that she can be anything she sets her mind to.

Being a mom myself, raising a bilingual child and working as a teacher in a dual language immersion program, I love that this book is written in both English and Spanish.

This storybook reminds me so much of my childhood days when I wanted to become someone one day when I grow up and then another professional the next day!

Hope parents try to understand what their kids want to be when they grow up instead of forcing their ideas on them.

I like the illustrations. I appreciate the idea of providing extra pages of the same story and illustrations in another language as well!

Thank you, author/artist and the publisher Indigo River Publishing, for the advance reading copy.